narcolepsy

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French narcolepsie. Surface etymology is narco- +‎ -lepsy, from Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō, “put to sleep”) +‎ λῆψις (lêpsis, “seizure”).

Noun

narcolepsy (countable and uncountable, plural narcolepsies)

1. (pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations

   Excitement-induced narcolepsy caused him to sleep through the most important events of his life.

Derived terms

• narcoleptic

Translations

sleeping disorder

• Armenian: նարկոպրեսիա (narkopresia)
• Catalan: narcolèpsia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發作性嗜睡病／发作性嗜睡病, 发作性嗜睡病 (fāzuòxìng shìshuì bìng), 猝睡症, 猝睡症 (cùshuìzhèng), 渴睡症, 渴睡症 (kěshuìzhèng), 嗜眠病 (zh) (shìmiánbìng)

• Czech: narkolepsie
• Danish: narkolepsi c
• Dutch: slaapzucht f, narcolepsie (nl) f
• Estonian: narkolepsia (et)
• Finnish: narkolepsia (fi), nukahtelusairaus
• French: narcolepsie (fr) f
• Georgian: ნარკოლეფსია (narḳolepsia)
• German: Narkolepsie (de) f
• Greek: ναρκοληψία (el) (narkolipsía)
• Icelandic: drómasýki
• Irish: narcailéipse f
• Lithuanian: narkolepsija
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• Marathi: नार्कोलेप्सी (nārkolepsī)
• Norwegian: narkolepsi
• Polish: narkolepsja (pl)
• Portuguese: narcolepsia f
• Romanian: narcolepsie (ro)
• Russian: нарколе́псия (ru) f (narkolépsija)
• Scottish Gaelic: an galar tuiteamas-cadail
• Serbo-Croatian: narkolepsija (sh), нарколепсија
• Slovak: narkolepsia
• Slovene: narkolepsija
• Spanish: narcolepsia (es) f
• Swedish: narkolepsi
• Turkish: narkolepsi
• Ukrainian: нарколепсія (narkolepsija)