sleeping sickness
noun
mass noun
1
- a tropical disease caused by a parasitic protozoan (trypanosome) which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly. It causes fever, chills, pain in the limbs, and anaemia, and eventually affects the nervous system causing extreme lethargy and death.昏睡病。亦称TYPANOSOMIASIS.
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- US term for SLEEPY SICKNESS.〈美〉同SLEEPY SICKNESS.