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sleeping sickness

/ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈsɪknɪs/

sleeping sickness noun: especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.

Noun

sleeping sickness (usually uncountable, plural sleeping sicknesses)

  1. (usually) Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
  2. (usually) Animal trypanosomiasis.
  3. (usually) Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
  4. (usually) Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.

sleeping sickness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

sleeping sickness in Tamil

உறக்க நோய், உறங்குநோய், தூக்க நோய், மெல்லிய, உறங்கும்வியாதி

sleeping sickness in Kannada

ಕುಗುರಿನ ಬೇನೆ, ನಿದ್ದೆಯ ಬೇನೆ, ಅಧಿಕನಿದ್ರೆಯ ಕಾಯಿಲೆ

Synonyms of sleeping sickness

Forms of sleeping sickness

pluralsleeping sicknesses

Questions about sleeping sickness

What does sleeping sickness mean?
Sleeping sickness means especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
What is sleeping sickness in Tamil?
Sleeping sickness in Tamil is உறக்க நோய், உறங்குநோய், தூக்க நோய். See Sleeping sickness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sleeping sickness?
Sleeping sickness is a noun.
How do you pronounce sleeping sickness?
Sleeping sickness is pronounced /ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈsɪknɪs/.
What is the plural of sleeping sickness?
The plural of sleeping sickness is sleeping sicknesses.

Words near sleeping sickness in the dictionary

  1. sleeping power
  2. sleeping powers
  3. sleeping quarters
  4. sleeping rough
  5. Sleeping Sexton
  6. sleeping sickness
  7. sleeping sicknesses
  8. sleeping suit
  9. sleeping table
  10. sleeping tables
  11. sleeping tablet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleeping sickness (page history and authors); sleeping sickness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sleeping sickness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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