elephantiasis

noun

1. 象皮病（因淋巴系统阻塞而引起的身体肿胀）
   a condition in which part of the body swells and becomes very large because the lymphatic system is blocked

1. Acute episodes of local inflammation involving skin, lymph nodes and lymphatic vessels often accompany the chronic lymphoedema or elephantiasis.
   急性发作期症状为局部皮肤炎症、淋巴结炎和淋巴管炎，经常伴随慢性淋巴水肿或象皮病。
2. Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the parasites that causes elephantiasis, a move that could lead to new drug targets for the disease.
   科学家测出了象皮病的病原体马来丝虫（Brugiamalayi）的基因组序列，这一成果可能有助于开发针对该病的新药。
3. Filariasis is a world health problem resulting from a parasitic-caused infection causing lymphatic insufficiency, and in some cases predisposes elephantiasis.
   丝虫病是一个世界健康问题，是由寄生虫感染导致的淋巴不足，在一些病例中表现为象皮肿。
4. Lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, is a neglected tropical disease.
   淋巴丝虫病，俗称象皮病，是一种被忽视的热带疾病。
5. Men with ulcerated legs, open wounds and elephantiasis still carry on with their work in the flooded rice-fields.
   有的人小腿溃烂，伤口裂开，受象皮病困饶却仍然持续劳作于秧田间。
6. Mosquitoes also carry lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.
   蚊子也会携带淋巴丝虫病，也称为象皮病。
7. When lymphatic filariasis develops into chronic conditions, it leads to lymphoedema ( tissue swelling) or elephantiasis ( skin/ tissue thickening) of limbs and hydrocele ( fluid accumulation).
   当淋巴丝虫病发展成慢性疾病时，会导致淋巴水肿（组织肿胀）或四肢象皮肿（皮肤/组织增厚）和鞘膜积液。
8. Effectiveness of Excision and Meshed Split Skin Graft on Elephantiasis
   病变组织切除中厚皮片网状移植术治疗象皮腿病的疗效观察

noun

1. hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum)