Synonyms for narcolepsy
ˈnɑr kəˌlɛp sinar·colep·sy

Princeton's WordNet

1. narcolepsynoun

   a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep

   "he believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking"

Matched Categories

1. • Hypersomnia

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. narcolepsy

   Synonyms:
   Sleeping sickness

2. narcolepsy

   Synonyms:
   Sleep epilepsy

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1. Russell Rosenberg:

   I certainly hope that Homer's story will bring more attention to (narcolepsy), he's not the typical case, although the fact that he is now being identified as having narcolepsy does exemplify the fact that many people can go years and years without getting the proper diagnosis.

2. Russell Rosenberg:

   He's not the typical case, although the fact that he is now being identified as having narcolepsy does exemplify the fact that many people can go years and years without getting the proper diagnosis, who knows if they have a sleep specialist or sleep laboratory in Springfield?

3. Samantha Holden:

   The earlier you can start people on treatments, the easier to enroll people in clinical trials to test new medications. borrow medicines from Alzheimer's to treat cognitive symptoms, from Parkinson's to treat motor symptoms, from narcolepsy to treat attention deficits and from psychiatry to treat behavioral symptoms.