sleeping sickness

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

Noun

an infectious, usually fatal, African disease transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, causing fever and sluggishness

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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 → enfermedad f del sueño

sleeping sickness n → maladie f du sommeil

sleeping sickness n → Schlafkrankheit f

sleeping sickness n → malattia del sonno