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单词 encephalitis lethargica
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encephalitis lethargica
encephalitis lethargica n. [ < scientific Latin encephalitis lethargica (C. von Economo 1917, in Wiener klin. Wochenschrift 30 581) < encephalitis + post-classical Latin lethargica , feminine singular of lethargicus adjective (see lethargic adj.)] a distinctive form of encephalitis which occurred in epidemic proportions between 1917 and the 1930s (and rarely thereafter), with variable symptoms often including somnolence and weakness or paralysis of eye muscles, and frequently followed by the development of parkinsonism; also called sleeping sickness and sleepy sickness.
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1918 Lancet 6 July 11/2 An epidemic of cases apparently in every way analogous to those under consideration occurred in the beginning of 1917 in Vienna, and a painstaking description of them will be found in the papers of Economo... He coined the name encephalitis lethargica for the condition, being duly impressed, as we in England have been, by the prominence of lethargy in the clinical picture.
1938 Times 31 Oct. 9/4 There has been a decline in the incidence of encephalitis lethargica (‘sleepy sickness’) and scarlet fever.
1973 O. Sacks Awakenings 9 Encephalitis lethargica—as von Economo was to name it—was a Hydra with a thousand heads.
2004 New Yorker 23 Aug. 65/3 All of these patients..were survivors of the great pandemic of encephalitis lethargica that swept the world from 1917 to 1928.
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