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elephantiasis

Noun

el=e=phan=ti=a=sis

WORDNET DICTIONARY

elephantiasis(n = noun.state) Array - hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis; Array

has particulars: elephantiasis neuromatosa, chyloderma, elephantiasis scroti, nevoid elephantiasis, pachyderma

elephantiasis, n. [L., fr. Gr. , from 'ele`fas, 'ele`fantos, an elephant.].

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide. [1913 Webster]

elephantiasis, n. gross enlargement of the body, esp. the limbs, due to lymphatic obstruction esp. by a nematode parasite.

Etymology

L f. Gk (as ELEPHANT)

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