Elephantiasis

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elephantiasis \El`e*phan*ti"a*sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from
     'ele`fas, 'ele`fantos, an elephant.] (Med.)
     A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously
     thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an
     elephant's hide.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  elephantiasis
       n : hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and
           scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis