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Meaning of "sleeping sickness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLEEPING SICKNESS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLEEPING SICKNESS

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Sleeping sickness is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SLEEPING SICKNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sleeping sickness

Sleeping sickness may refer to: ▪ African trypanosomiasis, a parasitic disease of people and animals ▪ Animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis ▪ Eastern equine encephalitis virus, a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean ▪ Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis that swept the world in the 1920s ▪ Fatigue, any one of several other medical conditions that cause lethargy...

Definition of sleeping sickness in the English dictionary

The definition of sleeping sickness in the dictionary is Also called: African sleeping sickness. an African disease caused by infection with protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, characterized by fever, wasting, and sluggishness. Other definition of sleeping sickness is Also called : sleepy sickness. an epidemic viral form of encephalitis characterized by extreme drowsiness Technical name: encephalitis lethargica.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLEEPING SICKNESS

sleepily
sleepiness
sleeping
sleeping accommodation
sleeping area
sleeping bag
sleeping berth
sleeping car
sleeping draught
sleeping giant
sleeping partner
sleeping pill
sleeping policeman
sleeping policemen
sleeping porch
sleeping position
sleeping problems
sleeping quarters
sleeping suit
sleeping tablet

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLEEPING SICKNESS

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

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

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Translation of «sleeping sickness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLEEPING SICKNESS

Find out the translation of sleeping sickness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of 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 «sleeping sickness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

昏睡病
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la enfermedad del sueño
570 millions of speakers

English

sleeping sickness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नींद की बीमारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مرض النوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сонной болезни
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doença do sono
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘুমের রোগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la maladie du sommeil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sakit tidur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schlafkrankheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

睡眠病
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수면병
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Turu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh ngủ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூக்க நோய்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झोपलेला आजार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uyku hastalığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malattia del sonno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Śpiączka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сонної хвороби
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

boala somnului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασθένεια του ύπνου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slaapsiekte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sömnsjuka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sovesyke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sleeping sickness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLEEPING SICKNESS»

The term «sleeping sickness» is regularly used and occupies the 107.004 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLEEPING SICKNESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLEEPING SICKNESS»

Discover the use of sleeping sickness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sleeping sickness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness ...
A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.
Maryinez Lyons, 2002
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Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East ...
British sleeping sickness control in colonial Uganda and Tanzania became a powerful mechanism for environmental and social engineering that defined and delineated African landscapes, reordered African mobility and access to resources.
Kirk Arden Hoppe, 2003
3
Sleeping Sickness and Other Parasitic Tropical Diseases
Fred Ramen. 400 AD South Americans suffering from Chagas' disease are mummified in the Andes. 1374 Mali's Mansa Djata dies of sleeping sickness. 1895 Dr. David Bruce discovers the cause of nagana. 1900 A sleeping sickness epidemic ...
Fred Ramen, 2002
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The African Trypanosomes
The African Trypanosomes, volume one of World Class Parasites, is written for researchers, students and scholars who enjoy reading research that has a major impact on human health, or agricultural productivity, and against which we have no ...
Samuel J. Black, J. Richard Seed, 2001
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Tropical Health: A Report on a Study of Needs and Resources
zaville), Republic of the Congo ( Leopold ville), Ruanda- Urundi, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Angola. Rhodesian sleeping sickness, transmitted by the "savannah woodland" tsetses is found in Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, ...
‎1962
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Applied Mathematical Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Approach
4.1. Introduction. Malaria and sleeping sickness are two well-known examples of tropical diseases that are spread through flying insects. Malaria is an ancient, serious, acute, and chronic relapsing infection that is transmitted through mosquito ...
Douglas R. Shier, K.T. Wallenius, 1999
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Tsetse Biology and Ecology: Their Role in the Epidemiology ...
1 2.9 TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI GAMBIENSE SLEEPING SICKNESS In a series of reviews of the ecology of endemic sleeping sickness, Morris (1951, 1952, I960, 1962b, 1963) argued that sleeping sickness in West Africa belonged, ...
Stephen G. A. Leak, 1999
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Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Source Book
8.2 La lutte: the campaign against sleeping sickness Maryinez Lyons, 'Sleeping Sickness Epidemics and Public Health in the Belgian Congo', in David Arnold (ed .), Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies: Disease, Medicine and Empire ...
Deborah Brunton, 2004
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Sociology: A Global Perspective
106–108). Given these culturally rooted beliefs regarding the cause and treatment of disease, it is not surprising to learn that Europeans and Africans clashed over how to handle a sleeping sickness epidemic in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Joan Ferrante, 2012
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Manual of Antibiotics and Infectious Diseases: Treatment and ...
It is indicated for the treatment of African (Gambian and Rhodesian) sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) with neurologic involvement and for the treatment of early African (Gambian and Rhodesian) sleeping sickness that is resistant to ...
John E. Conte, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLEEPING SICKNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sleeping sickness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mysterious 'sleeping sickness' that affected a Kazakhstan village …
People in a remote area of Kazakhstan have fallen victim to a mysterious 'sleeping sickness' that causes sufferers to fall asleep suddenly, and leaves them with ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Mystery of Kazakhstan sleeping sickness solved, says government
Scientists have discovered the cause of a strange sleeping sickness ... the air is reduced accordingly, which is the real reason for the sleeping sickness in these ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Tangled up in blue: A sticky end to sleeping sickness
Up to 60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of catching sleeping sickness which is caused by a parasite passed on by biting tsetse flies. «BBC News, Jun 15»
4
Sleeping sickness threatens 11mn Kenyans
Over 11 million people in Kenya are at the risk of being infected by sleeping sickness, a disease often transmitted – by the tsetse fly – to people in rural areas ... «Anadolu Agency, May 15»
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Mysterious 'Sleeping Sickness' Strikes Mother and Baby After …
As of March 2015, the “sleeping sickness” had affected about one quarter of the town's population, which stands at about 425 people, Eurasianet reported. «The Moscow Times, Apr 15»
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Sleeping sickness traps Kazakh town in waking nightmare
The unexplained ”sickness” can strike at any moment – at work, in bed, or even just walking down the street – and sufferers can sleep for anything from a full day ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
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What's Causing This Village's Weird Sleeping Sickness Epidemic?
The theory is as yet unproven, however—and in the meantime, authorities have chosen to take drastic measures against the sleeping sickness by offering to ... «Smithsonian, Mar 15»
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Cure for sleeping sickness comes closer to reality
Scientists identified a protein, called proliferating cell nuclear antigen or PCNA, that was vital to the sleeping sickness parasite's good health. Disrupting this ... «Zee News, Feb 15»
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Sleeping sickness prevention in a nutshell
Scottish scientific expertise has helped to develop a potentially transformative new method of tackling African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which poses ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»
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Important element in the fight against sleeping sickness found
Researchers from Aarhus University have taken an important step in the fight against sleeping sickness, a disease that is a major problem in parts of Africa. «EurekAlert, Nov 14»

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