ELEPHANTIASIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elephantiasis mean? 

• ELEPHANTIASIS (noun)
  The noun ELEPHANTIASIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ELEPHANTIASIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEPHANTIASIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("elephantiasis" is a kind of...):

hypertrophy (abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elephantiasis"):

elephantiasis neuromatosa (hypertrophy of a limb)

chyloderma; elephantiasis scroti (swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction)

nevoid elephantiasis; pachyderma (thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction)

 Context examples 

Elephantiasis caused by filarial infection is ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL.

(Elephantiasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Lymphatic filariasis is a mosquito-borne disease that often leaves its victims with disabling hydrocele (accumulation of fluid in the scrotum), lymphedema or elephantiasis after the infection has cleared.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

Originally developed to measure lymphedema in cancer patients following surgical removal of the lymph nodes, the new device has been adapted for those afflicted by elephantiasis caused by lymphatic filariasis infection.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

A portable 3-D scanning device developed by Sri Lankan and US researchers can quickly measure limb enlargement of patients with the disfiguring condition elephantiasis that resulted from lymphatic filariasis infection.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)