sleeping sicknessn.

Etymology: sleeping n.

1. In general and figurative senses.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleep

lethargyc1374

sleeping sickness1551

sleeping evil1580

sleeping diseasea1586

lethargicness1633

sopor1675

narcotism1843

hypersomnia1876

narcolepsy1880

narcolepsia1888

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Mv Is there annye man so possessed wyth stonyshe insensibilitie, or with the sleping sicknes, that he wyll not graunt health to be acceptable to hym and delectable?

1647 W. Jenkyn (title) A Sleeping Sicknes the distemper of the Times.

1904 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 179 Sleeping Sickness of Silk-worms..is in no wise due to the micro-organisms of the mulberry leaves.

2. Pathology. Any of several similar diseases caused by protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma and transmitted by flies of the genus Glossina, prevalent in tropical Africa, and characterized by the proliferation of the trypanosomes in the blood and changes in the central nervous system leading to apathy, coma, and death. Also attributive.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > trypanosomiasis

sleepy sickness1803

Gambia fever1817

sleeping sickness1875

Negro lethargy1886

sleep disease1897

trypanosomiasis1902

trypanosomatosis1903

Gambian1904

Chagas' disease1912

1875 Gore in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Jan. 5/1 The Sleeping Sickness of Western Africa.

1897 Manson in T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. II. 485 Sleeping sickness is a disease of the central nervous system; beri-beri of the peripheral.

1905 Proc. Royal Soc. 1904–5 74 389 These experiments go to show that the two diseases—Gambia Fever and Sleeping Sickness—..are distinct.

1908 W. S. Churchill My Afr. Journey v. 96 On April 28th, 1903, Colonel Bruce, whose services had been obtained for the investigation of ‘sleeping sickness’.., announced that he considered the disease to be due to a kind of trypanosome, conveyed from one person to another by the bite of a species of tsetse-fly called Glossina palpalis.

1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 558/1 Sleeping sickness is now treated by compounds of arsenic..; by compounds of antimony..; and by a drug of undisclosed composition called Bayer 205, or Germanin.

1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vi. 109 A small African outpost on the edge of the sleeping sickness country of Northern Bechuanaland.

1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xix. 7/2 Sleeping sickness in West Africa differs clinically and epidemiologically from the condition in East Africa. In the West, the disease generally runs a chronic course, in the East it is acute.

3. = sleepy sickness n. 2. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > encephalitis > types of

meningoencephalomyelitis1900

chronic fatigue1908

leucoencephalitis1909

sleeping sickness1918

X disease1918

sleepy sickness1922

western equine encephalitis1933

St. Louis encephalitis1934

Russian encephalitis1940

panencephalitis1950

Murray Valley encephalitis1951

Iceland disease1954

Murray Valley fever1955

myalgic encephalomyelitis1956

ME1982

1918 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 12 (Med. section) p. xvii The term ‘sleeping sickness’..would not be an inappropriate name for this epidemic [sc. encephalitis].

1920 Lancet 13 Mar. 620/2 Some popular term for encephalitis lethargica less cumbrous than ‘lethargic encephalitis’ and free from the objection to ‘sleeping sickness’.

1921 Times 3 Feb. 7/2 The Registrar-General's returns for the week..show that there were 21 cases of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica) notified..in London alone.

1961 L. E. Bollo Introd. Med. & Med. Terminol. xiv. 148 The von Economo type of encephalitis (encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness) is said to be of unknown etiology... African sleeping sickness, caused by protozoa of the genus Trypanosoma, is discussed later.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sleeping sickness
释义	sleeping sicknessn. Etymology: sleeping n. 1. In general and figurative senses. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > morbid sleep lethargyc1374 sleeping sickness1551 sleeping evil1580 sleeping diseasea1586 lethargicness1633 sopor1675 narcotism1843 hypersomnia1876 narcolepsy1880 narcolepsia1888 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Mv Is there annye man so possessed wyth stonyshe insensibilitie, or with the sleping sicknes, that he wyll not graunt health to be acceptable to hym and delectable? 1647 W. Jenkyn (title) A Sleeping Sicknes the distemper of the Times. 1904 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 179 Sleeping Sickness of Silk-worms..is in no wise due to the micro-organisms of the mulberry leaves. 2. Pathology. Any of several similar diseases caused by protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma and transmitted by flies of the genus Glossina, prevalent in tropical Africa, and characterized by the proliferation of the trypanosomes in the blood and changes in the central nervous system leading to apathy, coma, and death. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > trypanosomiasis sleepy sickness1803 Gambia fever1817 sleeping sickness1875 Negro lethargy1886 sleep disease1897 trypanosomiasis1902 trypanosomatosis1903 Gambian1904 Chagas' disease1912 1875 Gore in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Jan. 5/1 The Sleeping Sickness of Western Africa. 1897 Manson in T. C. Allbutt Syst. Med. II. 485 Sleeping sickness is a disease of the central nervous system; beri-beri of the peripheral. 1905 Proc. Royal Soc. 1904–5 74 389 These experiments go to show that the two diseases—Gambia Fever and Sleeping Sickness—..are distinct. 1908 W. S. Churchill My Afr. Journey v. 96 On April 28th, 1903, Colonel Bruce, whose services had been obtained for the investigation of ‘sleeping sickness’.., announced that he considered the disease to be due to a kind of trypanosome, conveyed from one person to another by the bite of a species of tsetse-fly called Glossina palpalis. 1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 558/1 Sleeping sickness is now treated by compounds of arsenic..; by compounds of antimony..; and by a drug of undisclosed composition called Bayer 205, or Germanin. 1958 L. van der Post Lost World of Kalahari (1961) vi. 109 A small African outpost on the edge of the sleeping sickness country of Northern Bechuanaland. 1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xix. 7/2 Sleeping sickness in West Africa differs clinically and epidemiologically from the condition in East Africa. In the West, the disease generally runs a chronic course, in the East it is acute. 3. = sleepy sickness n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of nervous system > [noun] > disorders of brain > inflammation of brain > encephalitis > types of meningoencephalomyelitis1900 chronic fatigue1908 leucoencephalitis1909 sleeping sickness1918 X disease1918 sleepy sickness1922 western equine encephalitis1933 St. Louis encephalitis1934 Russian encephalitis1940 panencephalitis1950 Murray Valley encephalitis1951 Iceland disease1954 Murray Valley fever1955 myalgic encephalomyelitis1956 ME1982 1918 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 12 (Med. section) p. xvii The term ‘sleeping sickness’..would not be an inappropriate name for this epidemic [sc. encephalitis]. 1920 Lancet 13 Mar. 620/2 Some popular term for encephalitis lethargica less cumbrous than ‘lethargic encephalitis’ and free from the objection to ‘sleeping sickness’. 1921 Times 3 Feb. 7/2 The Registrar-General's returns for the week..show that there were 21 cases of sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica) notified..in London alone. 1961 L. E. Bollo Introd. Med. & Med. Terminol. xiv. 148 The von Economo type of encephalitis (encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness) is said to be of unknown etiology... African sleeping sickness, caused by protozoa of the genus Trypanosoma, is discussed later. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551
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