| NOUN | state | elephantiasis | hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum) |
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| Sounds | eh.lihfahntay'ahsihs | |
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| Rhymes | abyss ... worthiness: 194 rhymes with ihs... | |
| Meaning | hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis. | |
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| Narrower | elephantiasis neuromatosa | hypertrophy of a limb |
| elephantiasis scroti, chyloderma | swelling of the scrotum resulting from chronic lymphatic obstruction | |
| nevoid elephantiasis, pachyderma | thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | |
| Broader | hypertrophy | Abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ |
| Spanish | elefancía, elefantiasis | |
| Catalan | elefantiasi | |
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