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noun
Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
Animal trypanosomiasis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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noun
an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis
History
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