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sleeping sicknesses

sleeping sicknesses is the plural of sleeping sickness.

Meaning of sleeping sickness

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.

Questions about sleeping sicknesses

What is sleeping sicknesses the plural of?
Sleeping sicknesses is the plural of sleeping sickness.

Words near sleeping sicknesses in the dictionary

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

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