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Sleeping sickness Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Sleeping sickness has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

2

Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:

3

especially, African 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

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