maladie du sommeil

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.la.di dy sɔ.mɛj/
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Noun

maladie du sommeil f (countable and uncountable, plural maladies du sommeil)

  1. sleeping sickness (any of several diseases of which lethargy is a major symptom)
  2. (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)
    Synonym: trypanosomiase africaine
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