Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reye's_syndrome

1 sense of reye's syndrome

Sense 1
Reye's syndrome -- (acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver)
       => brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease -- (any disorder or disease of the brain)
       => syndrome -- (a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease)