Noun: sleeping sickness
- An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness
"The film portrayed the devastating effects of sleeping sickness on patients during the 1920s epidemic";
- sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica
Type of: cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis [archaic]
Encyclopedia: Sleeping sickness