Elephantiasis

Nowadays, "elephantiasis" is sometimes used for severe lymphedema (a build-up of lymphatic fluid in the leg), sometimes for the specific tropical form of lymphedoma, lymphatic filariasis, caused by a parasitic infestation. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

The first accurate ideas in reference to elephantiasis arabum are given by Rhazes, Haly-Abas, and Avicenna, and it is possibly on this account that the disease received the name elephantiasis arabum. ❋ Unknown (1896)

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. ❋ Jeanne Whalen (2012)

Lymphatic Filariasis: Also known as elephantiasis. ❋ Jeanne Whalen (2012)

In China's Pearl River Delta, 300,000 women migrant workers have been trained in labor rights, legal services and life skills, thanks to San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. And in Africa, Asia and other tropical regions, new cases of lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis--an incurable disease that puts 1 billion people at risk of disabling deformities--may be eliminated by 2020, in great part because of a billion-dollar donation by London-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. ❋ Carlye Adler (2006)

Later symptoms include scrotal swelling and permanent swelling of the limbs (a condition commonly referred to as elephantiasis) as a result of the collections of fluid in cells, tissues, or body cavities brought about by adult worms residing in the nodes and vessels of the lymphatic system and restricting the flow of lymph. ❋ Unknown (1996)

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. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The most common of these is that hideous and loathsome disease known as elephantiasis in which certain parts of the patient becomes greatly swollen and distorted. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

Many were afflicted with that dreadful complaint known as elephantiasis -- their legs being swollen to an enormous size. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Better known as elephantiasis, the mosquito-borne worm disease incubates for years until the worms grow large enough to cause massive swelling. ❋ AP (2012)

Also on their hit list is river blindness, trachoma and lymphatic filariasis, otherwise known as elephantiasis. ❋ Carole Cadwalladr (2011)

The other species with which the country people are in some instances affected is doubtless, from the description given of its dreadful symptoms, that severe kind of leprosy which has been termed elephantiasis, and is particularly described in the Asiatic ❋ William Marsden (1795)

The other affects the patient with such enormous swelling of the legs and feet, that they give the idea of those shapeless pillars which support that creature; and therefore this disease has also been called elephantiasis by the Arabian physicians; who, together with the ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Republic, more than 600,000 people are infected with lymphatic filariasis, a parasitic infection also known as elephantiasis for the profound disfigurement it produces in the limbs and genitals. ❋ By PETER J. HOTEZ (2010)

At present there is no cure for lymphatic filariasis, the end stage of which is the condition known as elephantiasis, but the tetracycline antibiotic drug doxycycline can help reduce transmission of the disease by killing symbiotic bacteria in reproductive tracts of roundworms. at 1: 03 pm ❋ Unknown (2010)

A mosquito-borne parasitic disease, LF, also known as elephantiasis, affects 120 million people globally. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[What the man] originally thought to be a blessing [turned out] to be [genital] elephantiasis. ❋ Geniusgoalie (2006)

Dumbass: DUDE did you see Jim today? Dude: No, what happened? Dumbass: Dude, he was being beat up by this [short ass] kid, so he picked him up and dropped him on his head! Dude: Jim's got Testicular Elephantiasis man! Dumbass: They must be made out of [wrought] iron! Dude: [The fuck's] wrought iron? ❋ Cee-em-kay (2011)