Vi fant 2 definisjoner av sleeping sickness på engelsk.
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| sleeping sickness - an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness | ||
| sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica | ||
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| sleeping sickness - An endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death. |