Jamaican vomiting sickness

noun

An acute illness, with vomiting and dehydration, caused by the toxin hypoglycin A, found in unripe ackee fruit.

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nounJamaican vomiting sickness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn acute illness, with vomiting and dehydration, caused by the toxin hypoglycin A, found in unripe ackee fruit.

    Reye's syndrome and Jamaican vomiting sickness are disorders of mitochondrial dysfunction, while MCAD is a defect in mitochondrial beta oxidation of fatty acids.

    1997, Norman Gitlin, The Liver and Systemic Disease, page 277
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