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Reye Path.|raɪ, reɪ|
[The name of Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (1912–78), Australian pædiatrician, who with others first described the syndrome in 1963 (Lancet 12 Oct. 749–52).]
Reye's (or Reye) syndrome: an often fatal metabolic disease of young children.
1965Amer. Jrnl. Dis. Children CX. 95/1 The possible occurrence of the Reye syndrome in the United States. 1969Ibid. CXVII. 721/1 Thirty-three cases of Reye's syndrome (acute encephalopathy with fatty infiltration of the viscera). 1976Nature 20 May 184/1 A number of children, mostly from areas that have been heavily sprayed in the past, have died from Reye's syndrome, a condition first described in 1963 following the US Air Force's aerial defoliation in Vietnam and Thailand. The disease causes increased susceptibility to viral infection, and it is the spray dispersal emulsifiers which are suspect; the sprays used are Fenitrothion and Phospamidon. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 17 Dec. 12/1 There is no connection between the chemical Fenitrothion and the sometimes fatal children's disease called Reye's syndrome. |