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Elephantiasis   /ˌɛlɪfəntˈaɪəsɪs/   Listen
Elephantiasis

noun
1.
Hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis.



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... to their husbands. Their diseases among the children, are worms, and umbilical hernia; among the old people, and particularly those who have travelled much, blindness and opthalamia; and among the adult, affections of the heart, obstructions, sometimes leprosy, and rarely elephantiasis. Among the whole population of the Peninsula, there is only one person with a hunch back, and two or three who are lame. During the day they work or rest; but the night is reserved for dancing and conversation. ...
— Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 • J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard


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