Sleeping-sickness - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈsliːpɪŋ sɪknəs|  American pronunciation of the word sleeping-sickness
Brit.  |ˈsliːpɪŋ sɪknəs|  British pronunciation of the word sleeping-sickness

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- (pathology) 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.
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