sleeping sickness
143 synonyms found
- acute articular rheumatism
- African lethargy
- ague
- alkali disease
- amebiasis
- amebic dysentery
- anthrax
- Asiatic cholera
- bacillary dysentery
- bastard measles
- black death
- black fever
- blackwater fever
- breakbone fever
- brucellosis
- bubonic plague
- cachectic fever
- catalepsy
- cerebral rheumatism
- Chagres fever
- chicken pox
- cholera
- coma
- cowpox
- dandy fever
- deer fly fever
- dengue
- dengue fever
- diphtheria
- dumdum fever
- dysentery
- elephantiasis
- encephalitis lethargica
- enteric fever
- erysipelas
- famine fever
- five-day fever
- flu
- frambesia
- German measles
- glandular fever
- grippe
- hansenosis
- Haverhill fever
- hepatitis
- herpes
- herpes simplex
- herpes zoster
- high
- histoplasmosis
- hookworm
- infantile paralysis
- infectious mononucleosis
- inflammatory rheumatism
- influenza
- jail fever
- jungle rot
- kala azar
- kissing disease
- lepra
- leprosy
- leptospirosis
- lethargy
- loa loa
- loaiasis
- lockjaw
- madness
- malaria
- malarial fever
- marsh fever
- measles
- meningitis
- milzbrand
- mumps
- narcohypnosis
- narcolepsy
- narcoma
- narcosis
- narcotic stupor
- narcotization
- nod
- ornithosis
- osteomyelitis
- paratyphoid fever
- parotitis
- parrot fever
- pertussis
- pneumonia
- polio
- poliomyelitis
- polyarthritis rheumatism
- ponos
- psittacosis
- rabbit fever
- rabies
- rat-bite fever
- relapsing fever
- rheumatic fever
- rickettsialpox
- ringworm
- rubella
- rubeola
- scarlet fever
- schistosomiasis
- sedation
- septic sore throat
- shingles
- shock
- sleepy sickness
- smallpox
- snail fever
- sopor
- splenic fever
- spotted fever
- strep throat
- stupor
- swamp fever
- swoon
- tetanus
- thanatosis
- thrush
- tinea
- trance
- trench fever
- trench mouth
- tuberculosis
- tularemia
- typhoid
- typhoid fever
- typhus
- typhus fever
- undulant fever
- vaccinia
- varicella
- variola
- venereal disease
- viral dysentery
- whooping cough
- yaws
- yellow fever
- yellow jack
- zona
- zoster
Definition
(n) :
an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death