单词 | sleepy sickness |
释义 | sleepy sickness (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY sleepy sickness USAGE EXAMPLESIn its wards he encountered some 80 survivors of the 'sleepy sickness' pandemic of the 1920s. Nature(Sep 01, 2015) That of 1712 was called the sleepy sickness, by reason of the prevalence of these symptoms. Various, A System of Practical Medicine by A...(2012) n an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness Syn|Hyper encephalitis lethargica, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) |
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