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ELEPHANTIASIS
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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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