(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.
Scrotum
Definition:
(n.) The bag or pouch which contains the testicles; the cod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(2) By LHRH treatment 36 testes (20.5%) reached the scrotum, when HCG was added in unsuccessful cases 47 other gonads (26.8%) descended.
(3) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(4) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(5) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(6) However, in cases of delayed secondary scrotal surgery, or when a previous inflammatory process has existed in the scrotum, the limited scrotal distensibility may lead to further complications.
(7) Using the single criterion of presence or absence of identifiable intratesticular flow, the authors found that color Doppler was 86% sensitive, 100% specific, and 97% accurate in the diagnosis of torsion and ischemia in the painful scrotum.
(8) Physical examination revealed an elastic soft mass in the right inguinal region toward the right scrotum.
(9) In fact 4 boys had undergone surgical correction of a contralateral undescended testis at an earlier date at which time the testis in question could be manipulated into the scrotum.
(10) It was noted that the position of the right testis within the scrotum varied with the degree of inguinal herniation.
(11) Four patients are described who experienced an acute episode of eczematous dermatitis of the scrotum where 5-fluorouracil (Efudex) cream had inadvertently been applied in the course of treating warts and keratoses.
(12) Operations on the ureter decreased during the recent 5 year period and they were the fourth most frequent following those on the scrotum, scrotal contents and penis.
(13) Unicorn uterus, Fallopian tube and finbriae were observed, and a thumb-sized gonad with hemorrhage and fissure was also seen in the upper part of the scrotum.
(14) At puberty, his penis, scrotum, and testes matured normally, and he did not develop gynecomastia; however, his voice, muscularity, and facial, sexual, and body hair remained immature.
(15) We feel that this is an appropriate procedure to be used in patients who have lost the testicles and scrotum traumatically, either one or both testicles, or in the situation where both testicles have been spared.
(16) Surgical exploration of the scrotum in the other 2 revealed evidence of vasculitis in both and the possibility of torsion of appendix epididymis in 1.
(17) In retrospective study of 90 patients operated on for acute unilateral pains in scrotum region and its content--the so-called acute scrotum--during revision torsion of testis was found 48 times (53.3%), torsion of appendix testis 24 times (26.7%), acute epididymitis 17 times (18.9%) and testis tumour in one patient (1.1%).
(18) Fifty-one nodules were observed in the histopathologic examination, which revealed, in addition to the typical findings of idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum, various forms of intact cysts: epidermal (some calcified), pilar (calcified), hybrid (calcified), and indeterminate cysts with diffusely calcified keratinous content and attenuated walls.
(19) The migration of the male gubernaculum into the scrotum to enable descent of the testis does not occur in females.
(20) Two patients with a necrotizing soft tissue infection of the scrotum and perineum are described.