elephantiasis in English

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a condition in which a limb or other part of the body becomes grossly enlarged due to obstruction of the lymphatic vessels, typically by the nematode parasites that cause filariasis.

Manson correctly surmised that chyluria and elephantiasis were manifestations of lymphatic obstruction by adult filarial worms.

Use "elephantiasis" in a sentence

1. Histopathology of the specimen confirmed the diagnosis of abdominal elephantiasis.

2. Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, is a neglected tropical disease.

3. Objective:To investigate the pathogenesis and treatment of radioactive scrotal-penis elephantiasis.

4. In February 200 " elephantiasis scattered on March " won a national invention patent.

5. Mosquitoes also carry lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.

6. These apparently included elephantiasis, dysentery, smallpox, bubonic plague, and ophthalmia.

7. Conclusion Unknown causes of edema of lower trunk may be an early sign of elephantiasis . Early to middle stage of elephantiasis may be cured after a long-term treatment to remove the worms.

8. Elephantiasis had taken over his legs and now one thigh was the size of two.

9. Sometimes, with the parasitic cases, elephantiasis had set in, and the swollen legs were particularly horrible.

10. We stuffed our ankles with contraband until anyone seeing us might have imagined an outbreak of elephantiasis.

11. More than 3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.

12. Men with ulcerated legs, open wounds and elephantiasis still carry on with their work in the flooded rice-fields.

13. Acute episodes of local inflammation involving skin, lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels often accompany the chronic lymphoedema or elephantiasis.

14. Elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis, is a mosquito-borne disease caused by several types of nematode worm, including B. malayi.

15. 27 Men with ulcerated legs, open wounds and elephantiasis still carry on with their work in the flooded rice-fields.

16. As a medical student in the early 1950s, Blumberg had conducted research in Surinam on elephantiasis, a parasitic disease common in the tropics.

17. Conclusions:Carefully selecting the parameters of radiotherapy may help prevent radioactivated scrotal-penis elephantiasis, and the surgical treatment is an effective method for the disease.

18. Malcolm Dean on the all-out bid to kill off elephantiasis History in the breaking How do you eradicate a disease?

19. In this paper, the treatment of elephantiasis of lower extremity in 18 cases with micro-lymphangio-phlebostomy through multiple routes was reported.

20. Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the parasites that causes elephantiasis, a move that could lead to new drug targets for the disease.

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22. But what undermines the book "is not simply the Blatancy of the symbolism, or the conversations in which everyone makes their part in the novel's psychological framing just a shade too clear, but a kind of procedural elephantiasis."

23. Tularaemia (0) Cat-Scratch Disease (0) Scrophuloderma (0) Actinomycosis of the Skin (0) Primary Lues (0) Ulcus Molle (0) Granuloma Venereum (0) Sporotrichosis (0) Carcinoma of the Urethra (0) Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Penis (0) Elephantiasis Nostras following recidiv.

24. But what undermines the book "is not simply the Blatancy of the symbolism, or the conversations in which everyone makes their part in the novel's psychological framing just a shade too clear, but a kind of procedural elephantiasis."