sleeping sickness

Examples

• All

• Then came the long fever of the sleeping sickness.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Apparently she had contracted the sleeping sickness, which, like the walking sickness, was then general throughout Africa.

  Fiction book (1998)

• What is it, an epidemic of sleeping sickness?

  Sabrina (1995)

• The mosquitoes were terrible last summer; many children were taken by the sleeping sickness.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Sleeping sickness is endemic in East Africa and has, in the past, given rise to epidemics on a large scale.

  Academic text (2001)

• During the past 2 years, there have been serious concerns about the spread of sleeping sickness to areas previously free of the disease, i.e., north of the traditional disease focus in southeast Uganda.

  Academic text (2001)

• The largest campaigns of all, however, were waged against a protozoan illness which medical science has not yet conquered: sleeping sickness.

  Academic text (1993)

• Governments, therefore, spent relatively substantial sums to identify sleeping sickness victims and to isolate and treat them in an effort to limit the epidemic, which they finally did in the 1930s after 30 years of effort.

  Academic text (1993)

• Almost everyone who went to the Congo then had a struggle to avoid dying of malaria, amoebic dysentery, sleeping sickness, and other all-too-well-known tropical ailments.

  Academic text (1990)

• In Africa, the outbreak of sleeping sickness affected thousands, leading to a humanitarian crisis.

Synonyms

L

lethargic encephalitis

vssleeping sickness

• Archaic

9.9

A brain disease that causes deep sleep, weak muscles, and trouble moving the eyes in the early 1900s

is the same illness but stresses extreme rather than profound weakness

S

sleepy sickness

vssleeping sickness

• Archaic

9.9

A serious brain illness that causes sudden deep sleep, muscle weakness, and eye paralysis

is the same disease but describes weakness as extreme rather than severe

E

encephalitis lethargica

vssleeping sickness

• Specialized

9.9

A brain disease that caused deep sleepiness and severe muscle weakness during an epidemic in the early 1900s

is the same condition but stresses extreme rather than severe muscular weakness

E

epidemic encephalitis

vssleeping sickness

• Archaic

8.6

An infection of the brain that makes people unable to move their eyes and feel very weak during 1915–1926 outbreaks

is the same epidemic disease but highlights extrinsic eye muscle paralysis and extreme weakness

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology