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Sleeping sickness

Noun

Définitions

1.NounAny 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. Animal trypanosomiasis. Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
2.NounEspecially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
3.NounAnimal trypanosomiasis.
4.NounEastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
5.NounEncephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
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