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sleeping sickness

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Noun

an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness

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sleepy sickness epidemic encephalitis lethargic encephalitis encephalitis lethargica

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