Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "African sleeping sickness" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

African sleeping sickness  [ˈæfrɪkən ˈsliːpɪŋ ˈsɪknəs] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
African sleeping sickness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

African sleeping sickness

African trypanosomiasis

African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness[1] is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals. It is caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei.[2] There are two types that infect humans, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense.[1] T.b.g causes over 98% of reported cases.[1] Both are usually transmitted by the bite of an infected tsetse fly and are most common in rural areas.[1] Initially, in the first stage of the disease, there are fevers, headaches, itchiness, and joint pains.[1] This begins one to three weeks after the bite.[3] Weeks to months later the second stage begins with confusion, poor coordination, numbness and trouble sleeping.[1][3] Diagnosis is via finding the parasite in a blood smear or in the fluid of a lymph node.[3] A lumbar puncture is often needed to tell the difference between first and second stage disease.[3] Prevention of severe disease involves screening the population at risk with blood tests for T.b.g.[1] Treatment is easier when the disease is detected early and before neurological symptoms occur.[1] Treatment of the first stage is with the medications pentamidine or suramin.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS


alikeness
əˈlaɪknəs
brainsickness
ˈbreɪnˌsɪknəs
carsickness
ˈkɑːˌsɪknəs
causticness
ˈkɔːstɪknəs
childlikeness
ˈtʃaɪldˌlaɪknəs
Christlikeness
ˈkraɪstˌlaɪknəs
elasticness
ɪˈlæstɪknəs
exoticness
ɪɡˈzɒtɪknəs
franticness
ˈfræntɪknəs
genericness
dʒɪˈnɛrɪknəs
giganticness
dʒaɪˈɡæntɪknəs
heartsickness
ˈhɑːtˌsɪknəs
impoliticness
ɪmˈpɒlɪtɪknəs
opaqueness
əʊˈpeɪknəs
phlegmaticness
flɛɡˈmætɪknəs
prosaicness
prəʊˈzeɪɪknəs
publicness
ˈpʌblɪknəs
travel-sickness
ˈtrævəlˌsɪknəs
unlikeness
ʌnˈlaɪknəs
warlikeness
ˈwɔːˌlaɪknəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

African
African army worm
African elephant
African horse sickness
African lily
African mahogany
African marigold
African National Congress
African potato
African swine fever
African time
African Union
African violet
African wild dog
African-American
African-American Vernacular English
African-Canadian
African-Caribbean
Africana
Africander

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

blackness
bleakness
business
darkness
decompression sickness
frankness
homesickness
morning sickness
motion sickness
mountain sickness
pinkness
quickness
radiation sickness
seasickness
semi-darkness
serum sickness
sickness
slackness
slickness
thickness
weakness

Synonyms and antonyms of African sleeping sickness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «African sleeping sickness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS

Find out the translation of African sleeping sickness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of African sleeping sickness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «African sleeping sickness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

非洲昏睡病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Enfermedad del sueño africana
570 millions of speakers

English

African sleeping sickness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अफ्रीकी सो बीमारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرض النوم الأفريقي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Африканская сонная болезнь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Doença do sono Africano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আফ্রিকান ঘুমের অসুস্থতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

La maladie du sommeil africaine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyakit tidur Afrika
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Afrikanische Schlafkrankheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

アフリカ睡眠病
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아프리카 수면병
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penyakit lara Afrika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bệnh ngủ châu Phi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆப்பிரிக்க தூக்க நோய்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आफ्रिकन झोपलेला आजार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Afrika uyku hastalığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Malattia del sonno africana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Śpiączka afrykańska
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Африканська сонна хвороба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Boala somnului african
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Αφρικανική ασθένεια του ύπνου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Afrikaanse slaapsiekte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Afrikansk sömnsjuka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Afrikansk sovesyke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of African sleeping sickness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS»

The term «African sleeping sickness» is regularly used and occupies the 60.152 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
72
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «African sleeping sickness» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of African sleeping sickness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «African sleeping sickness».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «African sleeping sickness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «African sleeping sickness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about African sleeping sickness

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS»

Discover the use of African sleeping sickness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to African sleeping sickness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
African Sleeping Sickness: A Medical Dictionary, ...
If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries.
Icon Health Publications, 2004
2
Environmental Health: Bridging the Gaps
Trypanosomiases (African Sleeping Sickness and Chagas' Disease) Trypanosomiases: African Sleeping Sickness q Description. African sleeping sickness is a disease transmitted by the tsetse fly. Two main types of the disease exist; one ...
James A. Listorti, Fadi M. Doumani, 2001
3
Sleeping Sickness and Other Parasitic Tropical Diseases
Examines the microscopic world of the parasites that cause sleeping sickness and explains the origin of tropical diseases and their history.
Fred Ramen, 2002
4
Disease and fertility
Thus, in a pregnant woman with African sleeping sickness anemia weighs against a favorable pregnancy outcome and the anemia plus the immunosuppression ensures that postpartum infection is not only more likely but could be more ...
Joseph A. Jr. McFalls, 1984
5
Oxford Textbook of Medicine
Table 1 The principal features of West and East African sleeping sickness Disease Parasite Vector Clinical course Diagnosis Treatment Epidemiology West African sleeping sickness East African sleeping sickness Trypanosomo brucei ...
D. A. Warrell, Timothy M. Cox, John D. Firth, 2003
6
Microbiology Principles and Explorations 8th edition:
For humans to get African sleeping sickness, they must be bitten by an infected tsetse (tset se) fly (Figure 24.19b).When a tsetse fly ... (a) Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (1,707X), seen in a blood sample, causes African sleeping sickness.
Jacquelyn G. Black, 2012
7
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Trypanosomeswere first associated with African sleeping sickness in1903, after the British Tsetse Fly Commission, composed of David Bruce, David Nabarro, Aldo Castellani, and others, wassent toAfricato investigate outbreaks among British ...
Gary R. Mullen, Lance A. Durden, 2009
8
Health and disease in tropical Africa
G.E. MATZKE Introduction The links in causation of the human form of African sleeping sickness were reported to the modern medical community just after the arrival of this century1, although the disease itself was known to others at least 600 ...
Akhtar R, 1987
9
Library of Congress Subject Headings
T82] UF African sleeping sickness Gambesian sleeping sickness Rhodesian sleeping sickness Sleeping-sickness [Former heading] Sleeping sickness, Protozoan BT Trypanosomiasis African trypanosomiasis in animals USE Trypanosomiasis ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2005
10
Science In Medicine: The JCI Textbook Of Molecular Medicine
... in a European patient, a subspecies of trypanosomes called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (2) that is now recognized as the cause of West African sleeping sickness. In 1903, Aldo Castellani, wotking with Bruce, identified trypanosomes in ...
Andrew R. Marks, Ushma S. Neill, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term African sleeping sickness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
When 'Kill The TseTse Fly, Kill The Disease' Doesn't Work
African sleeping sickness is “recognized as one of the most neglected diseases in the world,” Rio said. Relative to other animals, tsetse flies ... «Newswise, Jun 15»
2
Clinical Trial in San Diego - African Sleeping Sickness treatment …
San Diego,CA – A new study to test whether African Sleeping Sickness treatment suramin can treat autism is about to be completed at the ... «Autism Daily Newscast, Jun 15»
3
Spotted: Sexist scientist; pricey problem
The drug — which is used to treat African sleeping sickness — alleviates autism symptoms in a mouse model of the disorder. But its mechanism ... «SFARI News, Jun 15»
4
San Diego Autism Researchers Are Testing A New Use For An Old …
Researchers are recruiting 20 patients to see if a drug called suramin — which has been used to treat African sleeping sickness since the early ... «KPBS, Jun 15»
5
Clinical trial for autism treatment launched in US
US researchers have launched the first clinical trial to test whether a century-old drug used for African sleeping sickness may help treat children ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
6
Clinical Trial Launched to Assess Safety and Efficacy of Autism Drug …
... which is recruiting 20 qualifying participants, will evaluate suramin – a century-old drug still used for African sleeping sickness – as a novel ... «UCSD Medical Center, Jun 15»
7
How dangerous liaisons between human and animal parasites …
New strains of the human pathogen responsible for African sleeping sickness can arise by swapping genes between human and animal ... «University of Bristol, May 15»
8
Mysterious 'sleeping sickness' baffles researchers
The condition is unrelated to the African sleeping sickness trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of a tsetse fly. Sleeping ... «WND.com, Mar 15»
9
To survive, a parasite mixes and matches its disguises, study suggests
Microscopy image of Trypanosoma brucei, the African sleeping sickness parasite. Credit: Danae Schulz/Laboratory of Lymphocyte ... «Phys.Org, Mar 15»
10
Ancient Teeth Help Solve Mystery of African Herd Migrations
"The specific assumption relates to the presence of the tsetse fly, which carries African sleeping sickness or trypanosomiasis. This is fatal to ... «Nature World News, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. African sleeping sickness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/african-sleeping-sickness>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z