RADS
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Related to RADS: Reactive attachment disorder, Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, Reactive airway disease, TADS
RADS
Eponym for reactive airways dysfunction syndrome. This is a non-specific form of ASTHMA that typically occurs as a result of massive exposure to a severe respiratory irritant.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005