Search Result for "encephalitis lethargica":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness;
[syn: sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

encephalitis lethargica
    n 1: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926;
         symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and
         extreme muscular weakness [syn: sleeping sickness,
         sleepy sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic
         encephalitis, encephalitis lethargica]