| sleepy sickness 
 
 an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926;
 symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
 • Syn:
 sleeping sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica
 • Hypernyms:
 encephalitis, cephalitis, phrenitis
 
 
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