See Also: Elephantiasis(medicine)
Elephantiasis(health)
elephantiasis(dictionary)
elephantiasis neuromatosa(medicine)
elephantiasis scroti(medicine)
elephantiasis, filarial(medicine)
elephantiasis vulvae(medicine)
gingival elephantiasis(medicine)
nevoid elephantiasis(medicine)
congenital elephantiasis(medicine)

elephantiasis (iou)



elephantiasis noun. . M16.
[Latin from Greek, from elephas: see ELEPHANT, -IASIS.]
Medicine. A condition in which a part of the body, usu. a limb, is grossly enlarged, esp. when due to obstruction of the lymphatics by filarial worms. Formerly also, any of various diseases characterized by swelling or by alteration of the skin, esp. lepromatous leprosy. M16.
fig. A great or undue expansion or enlargement. M19.