Translation guide
A disease causing extreme sleepiness, often spread by tsetse flies in Africa. In Japanese, the term is usually translated directly, but context matters for medical vs. general use.
The parasitic disease transmitted by tsetse flies, causing fever, headaches, and severe sleep disturbances.
Standard medical term for sleeping sickness, specifically African trypanosomiasis.
Describing a condition of extreme drowsiness or a tendency to fall asleep, not necessarily the parasitic disease.
Means 'pathological sleepiness', used when someone is abnormally sleepy due to a medical condition.
彼は病的な眠気に悩まされている。
He suffers from pathological sleepiness.
In English, 'sleeping sickness' can sometimes be used loosely for extreme tiredness, but in Japanese, 睡眠病 (suiminbyō) almost always refers to the tropical disease. Use 病的な眠気 or 過眠症 for non-infectious sleepiness.
睡眠病はツェツェバエによって媒介されます。
Sleeping sickness is transmitted by tsetse flies.
More specific term emphasizing the African origin, often used in medical contexts.
アフリカ睡眠病の治療には特別な薬が必要です。
Treating African sleeping sickness requires special medication.
Technical term for trypanosomiasis, used in scientific literature.
トリパノソーマ症は寄生虫によって引き起こされます。
Trypanosomiasis is caused by a parasite.
Medical term for hypersomnia, a condition of excessive sleepiness.
過眠症の症状として、日中に強い眠気を感じます。
As a symptom of hypersomnia, one feels intense sleepiness during the day.
Literally 'abnormal sleepiness', a general description for unusual drowsiness.
最近、異常な眠気が続いている。
Lately, I've been having abnormal sleepiness.