HyperDic: encephalitis_lethargica

English > 1 sense of the expression encephalitis lethargica:
NOUNstateencephalitis lethargica, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitisan encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926
English > encephalitis lethargica: 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.
Synonymssleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis
Broaderencephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitisinflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus
Spanishencefalitis letárgica
Catalanencefalitis letàrgica

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