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Meaning of sleeping sickness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom:
    uncountable, usually
  2. Especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome.
    uncountable, usually
  3. Animal trypanosomiasis.
    uncountable, usually
  4. Eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
    uncountable, usually
  5. Encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.
    uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Deutsch Schlafkrankheit
Suomi unitauti
Français maladie du sommeil
Nederlands slaapziekte
Português doença do sono
Українська со́нна хворо́ба

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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