SIDS

See also: SIDs

English

Noun

SIDS (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, pathology) Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome.
    • 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
      The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.
    • 2011 November, “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment”, in American Academy of Pediatrics‎[1], volume 128, number 5, page 1030:
      The AAP, therefore, is expanding its recommendations from focusing only on SIDS to focusing on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS.

Coordinate terms

  • SUDC

Proper noun

SIDS

  1. Small Island Developing States.

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