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sleeping sickness

noun — 4 senses

sleeping sickness

noun

/ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈsɪknɪs/

› Any of several diseases of which lethargy is…

1

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Usually Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.

2

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Usually Animal trypanosomiasis.

3

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Usually Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

4

Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Usually Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.

Synonyms
African trypanosomiasis, negro lethargy, sleepy distemper

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