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The end state of the disease filariasis
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elephantiasis
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elephantiasis \El`e*phan*ti"a*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from 'ele`fas, 'ele`fantos, an elephant.] (Med.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
Wikipedia
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Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Some conditions that have this symptom include: Elephantiasis nostras , due to longstanding chronic lymphangitis Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Greek elephantos , genitive of elephas "elephant" (see elephant ) + -iasis "pathological or morbid condition." It refers to two diseases, one characterized by thickening of a body part ( E. Arabum ), the other, older meaning is "disease characterized ...
Usage examples of elephantiasis.
Mann quotes Munde in speaking of an instance of removal of elephantiasis of the vulva without interrupting pregnancy, and says that there are many cases of the removal of venereal warts without any interference with gestation.
Malaria, elephantiasis, and the breakbone fever came north to Greenland.
A popliteal aneurism, a Colles' fracture, a spina bifida, a tropical abscess, and an elephantiasis.
The Pacific Ocean was a body of water surrounded on all sides by elephantiasis and other dread diseases to which, if he ever displeased Colonel Cathcart by grounding Yossarian, he might suddenly find himself transferred.
In New Caledonia, Kabo Mandalat, the female demon who causes elephantiasis, is a gigantic hermit crab, with legs as big as coconut trees, living in the shell of an enormous Delium-melanostoma.