Kleine-Levin syndrome
[ klahyn-luh-vin ]
/ ˈklaɪn ləˈvɪn /
noun Pathology.
prolonged episodes of excessive sleepiness often accompanied by overeating, hallucinations, and electroencephalogram changes, usually beginning in adolescence.
Origin of Kleine-Levin syndrome
after German psychologist Willi
Kleine (flourished 1925) and U.S. psychologist Max
Levin (born 1901), who independently described it in the 1920s