How To Use Elephantiasis In A Sentence
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In their research, the boffins are working with parasites called filarial nematodes, which can cause conditions such as elephantiasis.
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Thus the elephantiasis, being an intense scabbiness, is not a new kind; nor is the water-dread distinguished from other melancholic and stomachical affections but only by the degree.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Acute episodes of local inflammation involving skin, lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels often accompany the chronic lymphoedema or elephantiasis.
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-- General dropsy, elephantiasis, lipomata, myxedema, and various other affections in which there is a hypertrophic change of the connective tissues may be mistaken for general obesity; on the other hand, a fatty, pendulous abdomen may simulate the appearances of pregnancy or even of ovarian cyst (Fig. 172).
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
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A sequel of chronic lymphangitis is a condition known as elephantiasis.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases
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Lying across from them near the entrance to the bagi was a middle-aged man whose lower leg was infected with elephantiasis.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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The extent of the involvement and the intensity of the affection vary materially in different cases and a chronic lymphangitis may succeed the acute attacks and finally in some instances, elephantiasis results.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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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.
Critical eye: book reviews roundup
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-- General dropsy, elephantiasis, lipomata, myxedema, and various other affections in which there is a hypertrophic change of the connective tissues may be mistaken for general obesity; on the other hand, a fatty, pendulous abdomen may simulate the appearances of pregnancy or even of ovarian cyst.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Manson correctly surmised that chyluria and elephantiasis were manifestations of lymphatic obstruction by adult filarial worms.
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It is clear that this anti-parasite treatment can result in improvement of patients 'elephantiasis and hydrocoele (especially in the early stages of disease), but the most significant treatment advance to alleviate the suffering of those with elephantiasis has come from recognizing that much of the progression in pathology results from bacterial and fungal "superinfection" of tissues with compromised lymphatic function caused by earlier filarial infection.
Chapter 6
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Elephantiasis had taken over his legs and now one thigh was the size of two.
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An original and important speculation is made with respect to the intimate pathology of elephantiasis, chyluria, and lymph scrotum, which is thoroughly worthy of consideration.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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I'm not a big person, mind you, but next to her daintiness I'm a clodhopper with elephantiasis.
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The irony in the Pacific Islands is that, though still beset by traditional tropical infections such as malaria, dengue fever, and elephantiasis, the new great killer is the combination of obesity, diabetes, and vascular disease.
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You don't have to notice the new grey hair on your best friend's head; or the growing elephantiasis of your grandfather's leg.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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Treatment of elephantiasis nostras aims at prevention of recurrent infection and edema.
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Designer Daan van den Berg did a tridimensional scan to an Ikea lamp, infected the file with a digital version of Elephantiasis virus and printed the result in a 3D printer.
Archive 2009-05-01
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One day I was in the nearby village of Lang Co, where I went every day except Sunday, to treat the villagers for their various ailments, which ranged from ringworm and pinworm to elephantiasis.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs
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Secondary bacterial infection can cause hardening and thickening of the skin, known as elephantiasis.
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Yet I did not see a single case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar and East Africa.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Sam Lipsyte's third novel, The Ask, is a dark and jaded beast — the sort of book that, if it were an animal, would be a lumbering, hairy, cryptozoological ape-man with a near-crippling case of elephantiasis.
The Ask: Summary and book reviews of The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.
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However, there are differences in the epidemiology and pathophysiology of elephantiasis and hydrocele.
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Leprosy and lymphatic filariasis, or elephantiasis, leave victims deformed, hamper productivity and normal social interaction, Chan said.
1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO
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Hypertrophy of the digits is the result of many different processes, and true hypertrophy or gigantism must be differentiated from acromegaly, elephantiasis, leontiasis, and arthritis deformans, for which distinction the reader is referred to an article by Park.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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During the Second World War, tens of thousands of Australian and American soldiers fighting in the Pacific Islands had terrible trouble with lymphatic filariasis, another parasitic infection, that causes elephantiasis.
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During the past four years, 80 million people have been successfully treated for elephantiasis, one of the world's most disfiguring diseases.
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I'm not a big person, mind you, but next to her daintiness I'm a clodhopper with elephantiasis.
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Each adult female worm, thin but more than 1/2 metre in length, produces millions of microfilariae (microscopic larvae) that migrate throughout the body and give rise to a variety of symptoms: serious visual impairment, including blindness; rashes, lesions, intense itching and depigmentation of the skin; lymphadenitis, which results in hanging groins and elephantiasis of the genitals; and general debilitation.
Chapter 2
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In consequence of the great alterations in the skin of the limbs, which are covered with ulcerated tubercles, crusts, and cicatrices, the pachydermic state of skin which gives the limbs the appearance of elephantiasis, and of the lesions of the peripheral nerves which are present at this time, the sense of touch is abolished.
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More than 1.3 billion people in 81 countries worldwide are threatened by lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis.
