Synonyms for sleeping sickness
sleep·ing sick·ness

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1. sleeping sicknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   African trypanosomiasis, African sleeping sickness

2. sleeping sicknessnoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   African trypanosomiasis, African sleeping sickness

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1. sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargicanoun

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

   Synonyms:
   encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, sleepy sickness, lethargic encephalitis

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1. sleeping sickness

   Synonyms:
   maladie de sommeil

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1. Willie Weir:

   We've discovered that the parasite causing African sleeping sickness has existed for thousands of years without having sex and is now suffering the consequences of this strategy, theoretically ... the predicted consequence of this is that it will become extinct in the long-term.