n.
An acute encephalopathy characterized by fever, vomiting, fatty infiltration of the liver, disorientation, and coma, occurring mainly in children and usually following a viral infection, such as chicken pox or influenza.
[After Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (1912-1978), Australian pediatrician.]
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