Synonyms for Encephalitis Lethargica (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness):
sleeping sickness, epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleepy sickness
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