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 Translation for 'falling sickness' from English to Russian
мед.
падучая {ж} [устр.] [разг.] [эпилепсия]
falling sickness [archaic] [epilepsy]
болезнь {ж}sickness
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мед.
сонная болезнь {ж}
sleeping sickness
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Usage Examples English
  • People came to be healed of the "falling sickness", which was possibly epilepsy.
  • Calpurnia tells Caesar that she knows about his "falling sickness" and he confesses that it shames him.
  • Suetonius said that Caligula had "falling sickness", or epilepsy, when he was young.
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