Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease or infection caused by a trypanosome.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general term proposed by Salmon and Stiles (1902) to denote any infection of any warm- or cold-blooded animal by any species of the flagellate protozoan family Trypanosomaiidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology Any of several diseases or infections caused by a
trypanosome .
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Examples
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Local officials in central-eastern Maniema Province said sleeping sickness, a fatal disease transmitted by the tsetse fly and formally known as trypanosomiasis, was on the rise with at least 120 new cases reported in 2001.
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The disease, properly called trypanosomiasis (trip'uh-noh-soh-my'uh-sis), is commonly called "African sleeping sickness."
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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One of the worst scourges of Africa and one that is to-day attracting world-wide attention is the disease known as trypanosomiasis, the terminal phase of which is sleeping sickness, one of the most ghastly diseases that we know.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Sleeping sickness: Also known as trypanosomiasis, this disease affects people and animals.
Primates in the News 2008
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Sleeping sickness: Also known as trypanosomiasis, this disease affects people and animals.
Primates in the News 2008
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Sleeping sickness: Also known as trypanosomiasis, this disease affects people and animals.
Primates in the News 2008
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Dr. Grace Murilla is the Kenyan principal investigator with a University of North Carolina-led consortium developing drugs to treat parasitic diseases such as trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness.
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Around 300,000 people in Africa are thought to have sleeping sickness, also known as African trypanosomiasis which is fatal unless treated.
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Some are raised even in areas where domestic cattle cannot survive because of afflictions such as trypanosomiasis and foot-and-mouth disease.
5 Chicken 1991
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Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, debilitates before it kills.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO AP 2010
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