sleeping sickness

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

especially, African sleeping sickness, 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

日本語の意味

アフリカ睡眠病：アフリカの熱帯地域において、寄生性のトリパノソーマによって引き起こされる風土病性の感染症。ツェツェバエによって媒介され、人間や動物に感染。初期症状としては発熱、激しい頭痛、関節痛、およびリンパ節の腫れが見られ、後期には極度の乏力、眠気、深い昏睡状態に陥り、最終的には致命的な場合もある

英語の意味

especially, African sleeping sickness, 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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Healthcare workers warned villagers to seek treatment early after an outbreak of sleeping sickness was detected along the river.

医療従事者は、河沿いでアフリカ睡眠病の発生が確認されたことを受けて、村人に早めの受診を呼びかけた。

詳細

意味（1）

especially, African sleeping sickness, 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

意味（2）

Also, animal trypanosomiasis, also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis

意味（3）

eastern equine encephalitis, caused by a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean

意味（4）

encephalitis lethargica, a form of encephalitis, of unknown cause, that swept the world in the 1920s.

sleeping sicknesses （ plural ）