NOUN | state | epidemic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica | an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926 |
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Meaning | An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme / extreme muscular weakness. | |
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Synonyms | sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica | |
Broader | encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis | inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus |
Spanish | encefalitis letárgica | |
Catalan | encefalitis letàrgica |
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