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n. Chronic, often extreme enlargement and hardening of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the legs and external genitals, resulting from lymphatic obstruction and usually caused by infestation of the lymph glands and vessels with a filarial worm.

n. 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.

n. A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

n. A name given to several forms of skin-disease.

n. hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis

"Nowadays, "elephantiasis" is sometimes used for severe lymphedema (a build-up of lymphatic fluid in the leg), sometimes for the specific tropical form of lymphedoma, lymphatic filariasis, caused by a parasitic infestation."

hypertrophy   

pachyderma    elephantiasis scroti    elephantiasis neuromatosa    chyloderma    nevoid elephantiasis   

congenital elephantiasis    elephantiasis neuromatosa    elephantiasis gingivae    angioelephantiasis    elephantiasis oculi   

brewis    desease    lymphadenopathy    gastritis    snow-blindness