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Sleeping sickness

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:; Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:; Animal trypanosomiasis. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:; Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. uncountable, usually
  5. 5
    Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:; Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s. uncountable, usually

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