sleeping sickness (redirected from African trypanosomaiasis)

sleeping sickness

n.

1. An often fatal, endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by either of two trypanosomes (Trypanosoma rhodesiense or T. gambiense) transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma. Also called African sleeping sickness.

2. See encephalitis lethargica.

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sleeping sickness

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1. (Medicine / Pathology) Also called African sleeping sickness an African disease caused by infection with protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, characterized by fever, wasting, and sluggishness

2. (Medicine / Pathology) Also called (esp formerly) sleepy sickness an epidemic viral form of encephalitis characterized by extreme drowsiness Technical name encephalitis lethargica

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sleeping sickness  (slpng)

1. An often fatal protozoan infection prevalent in tropical Africa, caused by either of two trypanosomes spread by the bite of the tsetse fly and characterized by fever and extreme lethargy.

2. Encephalitis that is caused by any of various viruses and is characterized by lethargy and extreme muscular weakness.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sleeping sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleepy sickness cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis - inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)

Translations

sleeping sickness n → malattia del sonno