Usually means: Abnormal swelling due to lymphatic blockage.
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  1. elephantiasis: Merriam-Webster
  2. elephantiasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elephantiasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elephantiasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elephantiasis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elephantiasis, elephantiasis: Wordnik
  7. elephantiasis: Wiktionary
  8. elephantiasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. elephantiasis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. elephantiasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. elephantiasis: Dictionary.com
  12. elephantiasis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Elephantiasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Elephantiasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. elephantiasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. elephantiasis: Rhymezone
  17. Elephantiasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. elephantiasis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. elephantiasis: FreeDictionary.org
  20. elephantiasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. elephantiasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. elephantiasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. elephantiasis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Elephantiasis: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Elephantiasis: Merck Manuals
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  9. elephantiasis: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Elephantiasis: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Elephantiasis, Elephantiasis, Elephantiasis: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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  1. elephantiasis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elephantiasis)

noun:  (pathology) A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
noun:  (pathology, obsolete) Synonym of leprosy.

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