ELEPHANTIASIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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