encephalitis lethargica

Noun
  1. An encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926;
    Symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness (synset 114367140)
    is a type of: cephalitis, encephalitis, phrenitis - inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)
    same as: epidemic encephalitis, lethargic encephalitis, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness

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