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SLEEPING SICKNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; lethargic encephalitis; sleeping sickness; sleepy sickness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sleeping sickness" is a kind of...):
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))
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