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Sleeping sickness   /slˈipɪŋ sˈɪknəs/   Listen
Sleeping sickness

noun
1.
An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness.  Synonyms: encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleepy sickness.






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"Sleeping sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... through a region ravaged by the "sleeping sickness," where his nostrils were never free from the stench of dead bodies, where in some of the villages, as he expressed it, "the hyenas were mangy with overeating, and the buzzards so gorged they could not move out of our way." From this expedition ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis



Words linked to "Sleeping sickness" :   sleepy sickness, encephalitis, phrenitis, lethargic encephalitis, epidemic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica, cephalitis



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