(n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Choroido-retinal degeneration, genital elephantiasis and hydrocoele, commonly associated with onchocerciasis in other parts of the Sudan, are absent.
(2) From 1960 to date, there have been four cases of elephantiasis penis in the urologic clinic of the Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart, which were operated on by skin transplantation.
(3) All of Goyrand's work was edited by Masson in 1870, including a superb case report of giant elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum, a study on cleft lip and the technique of using collodion bands to close large wounds [corrected].
(4) The author developed a microlymphatico-venous procedure to treat elephantiasis of the scrotum and applied it clinically with good results.
(5) Only two cases of leg elephantiasis and one breast elephantiasis were found.
(6) Larvae are responsible for damage to various structures of the lymphatic system (thrombo-lymphangitis, acute or granulomatous lymphadenitis...) into which they migrate, explaining the mechanism of elephantiasis.
(7) Clinical signs of disease with the exception of elephantiasis, showed good correlations with Mf-rates but not with MfD50 values.
(8) Sera from 50 patients with several clinical forms of the disease including asymptomatic carriers, tropical pulmonary eosinophilia, elephantiasis, filarial fever and chyluria were analysed.
(9) In the irreversible lymphoedema (stage III) and in the elephantiasis (stage IV) the following operations have been developed: ligature of ectatic lymphtrunks, peripheral lymphovenous and lymphadenovenous shunts, skin-flap transplantations, free or pediculated transplantation of the greater omentum, lymphangioplastic operations (Thompson-operation) or excisional operations (Servelle-operation).
(10) Patients with elephantiasis seldom have circulating microfilariae in their blood.
(11) Thus, the ability to initiate the formation of obstructive lesions in the dilated lymphatics of chronically parasitized nude mice by immunological reconstitution, suggests that several complex mechanisms might operate in stages to cause filarial elephantiasis.
(12) An estimated 2500 to 40000 men suffering from hydroceles and 3700 to 40000 elephantiasis patients demonstrate that bancroftian filariasis has to be regarded a health problem in rural coastal Liberia.
(13) In Kakap 18% of 226 persons examined had a clinical history of filariasis and elephantiasis was seen in 13%.
(14) Analysis of the microfilarial densities at different ages and the number of anatomical sites showing lymph gland enlargement or elephantiasis have been used to provide evidence on the clustering of infections and pathogenesis.Although there is no evidence of clustering of risk of infection, there is evidence favouring the clustering of adult filariae in individuals.
(15) The diagnosis of elephantiasis nostras can often be made based on the clinical findings, but examination of tissue may be helpful to rule out associated conditions, especially malignancies.
(16) Lymphatic filariasis is expressed clinically as elephantiasis.
(17) In spite of a regular intravenous protein substitution for many years, this patient had developed a monstrous elephantiasis of the lower extremities.
(18) An elderly man had elephantiasis of a lower extremity that was partially covered with verrucose papules, but also had sharply delineated islands of normal-appearing skin.
(19) Whereas clinical descriptions of grotesque lymphedema and standard light microscopy in human filariasis have elucidated the natural progression of this disease, the link between the nematode and vascular abnormalities including elephantiasis remains poorly understood.
(20) A case of elephantiasis nostras in a lower limb is presented.
Lymphatic
Definition:
(a.) pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
(a.) Madly enthusiastic; frantic.
(n.) One of the lymphatic or absorbent vessels, which carry lymph and discharge it into the veins; lymph duct; lymphatic duct.
(n.) A mad enthusiast; a lunatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(2) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(3) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(4) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(5) A prospective randomized study was carried out to discover the influence of the timing of shoulder physiotherapy after-axillary dissection for breast cancer upon the incidence and duration of lymphatic fluid production and seroma after these operations.
(6) The results presented in this paper show that chronic lymphatic fistulae can be established successfully in fetal calves to give access to recirculating lymphocytes.
(7) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
(8) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
(9) One-hundred spleens from HIV-infected patients which were studied by conventional morphological and immunohistochemical methods exhibited alterations in lymphatic tissue as well as in the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS); these were probably related directly to HIV infection of lymphocytes and MPS cells.
(10) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
(11) We have studied the effect of ampicillin and cloxacillin treatment of mice in the final week of pregnancy on the development of the lymphatic system of their offsprings.
(12) These studies demonstrated an association of HIV virus with cytopathic and immunopathogenic reactions in lymphatic organs of AIDS patients, and are consistent with previous results, as well as indicative of a primary aetiologic role for the virus.
(13) A corresponding increase in the lymphatic leukemia virus component of the F-MuLV complex was not observed, which suggests that the enhancement of the disease was due primarily to a selective increase in the SFFV component of the F-MuLV complex.
(14) Total protein, RNA, DNA, nitrogen, free amino acids and water content were determined in both lymphatic organs.
(15) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(16) Methods for quantification of limb swelling are described, as is analysis of the lymphatic block by lymphoscintigraphic imaging of lymph channels and nodes.
(17) A new surgical technique for peripheral lymphatic-venous anastomosis is presented.
(18) Földi succeeded in producing experimentally the syndrome of "lymphostatic encephalopathy and ophthalmopathy" by operative blockade of the cervical lymphatics in animals.
(19) However, a survival rate 18.6% higher at 5 years was observed in the subset of patients who had moderately advanced lymphatic metastases, and a survival rate 26.4% higher at 5 years was observed in the subset of patients who had involved serosa.
(20) An additional patient with acute non-lymphatic leukemia had been submitted to chemotherapy for gastric cancer.