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Qué (quién) es ELEPHANTIASIS - definición
Elephantiasis
HUMAN DISEASE
Elephantitis; Bancroftian filariasis; Elephantiasis, filarial; Bancroftian elephantiasis; Testicular Elephantiasis; Elaphantiasis; Pachydermia; Elephantitus; Filarial elephantiasis
Elephantiasis is the enlargement and hardening of limbs or body parts due to tissue swelling. It is characterised by edema, hypertrophy, and fibrosis of skin and subcutaneous tissues, due to obstruction of lymphatic vessels.
Elephantiasis
HUMAN DISEASE
Elephantitis; Bancroftian filariasis; Elephantiasis, filarial; Bancroftian elephantiasis; Testicular Elephantiasis; Elaphantiasis; Pachydermia; Elephantitus; Filarial elephantiasis
·noun A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
elephantiasis
HUMAN DISEASE
Elephantitis; Bancroftian filariasis; Elephantiasis, filarial; Bancroftian elephantiasis; Testicular Elephantiasis; Elaphantiasis; Pachydermia; Elephantitus; Filarial elephantiasis
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¦ noun Medicine a condition in which a limb becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, especially by nematode parasites.
Origin
C16: via L. from Gk, from elephas, elephant- 'elephant' + -iasis.
Ejemplos de uso de ELEPHANTIASIS
1. But Leeds has little of the elephantiasis of the new Birmingham and Manchester with their pavilions–in–piazzas.
2. The president on Wednesday announced a $350 million, five–year plan to triple the reach of U.S. efforts fighting less prominent tropical diseases in Africa such as elephantiasis, hookworm and river blindness.
3. Put a lid on prices for Prozac, Viagra and other drugs that address the concerns of the rich world, and pretty soon you have dried up the capital necessary to manufacture a cure for TB, malaria and elephantiasis.
4. "These are not new diseases, but during the war health systems broke down and now the health system needs to be strengthened to get, and keep, them under control." These so–called neglected tropical diseases include leprosy, elephantiasis, Kala Azar, which breaks down the immune system, river blindness, cholera, sleeping sickness, guinea worm and Buruli ulcer, described by one doctor as the flesh–eating disease.