sleeping sickness
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sleeping sickness
- /ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈsɪknɪs/
noun sleeping sicknesses
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Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
Similar: African trypanosomiasis, negro lethargy, sleepy distemper
- Animal trypanosomiasis.
- Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
- Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
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noun infectious disease
| Español | enfermedad del sueño |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 昏睡病 hūnshuìbìng |
| Kiswahili | malale |
| Português | doença do sono |
| Français | maladie du sommeil |
| Deutsch | Schlafkrankheit |
| Română | boala somnului |
| Русский | со́нная боле́знь sónnaja boléznʹ |
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title = {sleeping sickness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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