sleeping sickness
Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptomAny of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom: Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
Meaning
4 sensesAny of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
(uncountable, usually)Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
Schlafkrankheit
со́нная боле́зньsónnaja boléznʹ
со́нна хворо́баsónna xvoróba
(uncountable, usually)Animal trypanosomiasis.
(uncountable, usually)Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
(uncountable, usually)Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
- an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
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Forms
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uncountable
Synonyms
7 synonyms- an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness:sleepy sicknessepidemic encephalitislethargic encephalitisencephalitis lethargica
Lessons for this word
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