elephantiasis
Kelime Anlamı :

1. fil hastalık.
2. fil hastalığı.
3. Çok defa organa kısılı kalan ve lenfa sistemindeki bozukluktan ileri gielen bağ dokusu çoğalması, elefantiyazis (fil hastalığı).
4. (isim) fil hastalığı.
5. elefantiyazis.
Tanımlar :
1. chronic, often extreme enlargement and hardening of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the legs and external genitals, resulting from lymphatic obstruction and usually caused by infestation of the lymph glands and vessels with a filarial worm.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A name given to several forms of skin-disease.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.