1. n. (Médecine) maladie du sommeil, trypanosomiase africaine.
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sleeping sickness
1. n. (pathology) Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
2. n. especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, trans
3. n. Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis
4. n. eastern equine encephalitis virus, a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean
5. n. encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis that swept the world in the 1920s