HyperDic: sleeping_sickness

English > 1 sense of the expression sleeping sickness:
NOUNstatesleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargicaan encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926
English > sleeping sickness: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningAn encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme / extreme muscular weakness.
Synonymssleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica
Broaderencephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitisinflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus
Spanishencefalitis letárgica
Catalanencefalitis letàrgica

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