| ackee poisoning | An acute and frequently fatal vomiting disease associated with central nervous system symptoms and marked hypoglycaemia, caused by eating unripe ackee fruit of Blighia spaida, a tree common in Jamaica. Synonym: Jamaican vomiting sickness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Acknowledgements | Many thanks to all the contributors that provided constructive criticism during the preparation of the first edition. In particular, a big thanks to Denis Howe for permission to hack with his perl script. Have a look at his Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing. Some of the definitions were extracted from the electronic version of Websters Dictionary. This can be found at Project Gutenberg. (11 Mar 1998) |