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Sleeping sickness   /slˈipɪŋ sˈɪknəs/   Listen
Sleeping sickness

noun
1.
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, sleepy sickness.





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"Sleeping sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... are hearing all about 'Marella.' It builds you up if you are a skeleton and pulls you down if you are enormous, as I am. It makes you sleep if you suffer from insomnia, and if you have the sleeping sickness it wakes you up. Dr. Curling has patented it, and feeds his patients on nothing else. Delia is living entirely on it, and is to emerge looking seventeen and a female Sandow. Mr. Heath is ...
— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens
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Words linked to "Sleeping sickness" :   encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, sleepy sickness, phrenitis, encephalitis, cephalitis, lethargic encephalitis


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