English Dictionary

sleeping sickness

noun

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

Sleeping sickness is a serious disease caused by a parasite.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis

意味（3）

eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean

意味（4）

encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.