Elephantiasis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELEPHANTIASIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• enlargement and thickening of tissues
• 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 which cause filariasis.
• A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant\'s hide.
• hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• enlargement and thickening of tissues; the enormous enlargement of a limb or the scrotum caused by obstruction of lymphatics by filarial worms (especially Wuchereria bancrofti)

Words related to ELEPHANTIASIS

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How to use ELEPHANTIASIS in a sentence

• Unfortunately, he was afflicted with elephantiasis, and his appearance did not at all tend to whet the edge of our appetites.
• I had been told that the population here suffered very much from elephantiasis, and that numbers of poor wretches with horribly swollen feet were to be seen at almost every turn.
• The diseased, who live at the dispensary, are mostly those who are afflicted with the elephantiasis, by which they are rendered entirely helpless.
• The inhabitants suffer greatly from swelled thyroid gland or Derbyshire neck and elephantiasis, and this is the rainy season and very unsafe for me.
• A sequel of chronic lymphangitis is a condition known as elephantiasis.
• The hind legs, in elephantiasis, are affected and a unilateral involvement is more often seen than a bilateral one.
• Mongondro was a sweet-tempered, mild-mannered little old chief, short-sighted and afflicted with elephantiasis, and no longer inclined toward the turbulence of war.

Similar words containing ELEPHANTIASI without suffix s

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