Diseases

Elephantiasis

Hypertrophy and thickening of tissues from causes other than filarial infection, the latter being described as ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL.

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Abstract

Hypertrophy and thickening of tissues from causes other than filarial infection, the latter being described as ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL.

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  • Elephantiases
  • Bigfoot Disease
  • Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa
  • Endemic Elephantiasis
  • Endemic Non-Filarial Elephantiasis
  • Lymphostatic Verrucosis
  • Microcrystal Disease
  • Mossy foot
  • Podoconiosis
  • Bigfoot Diseases
  • Disease, Bigfoot
  • Disease, Microcrystal
  • Diseases, Bigfoot
  • Diseases, Microcrystal
  • Elephantiases, Endemic
  • Elephantiases, Endemic Non-Filarial
  • Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosas
  • Elephantiasis, Endemic
  • Elephantiasis, Endemic Non-Filarial
  • Endemic Elephantiases
  • Endemic Non Filarial Elephantiasis
  • Endemic Non-Filarial Elephantiases
  • Lymphostatic Verrucoses
  • Microcrystal Diseases
  • Mossy foots
  • Non-Filarial Elephantiases, Endemic
  • Non-Filarial Elephantiasis, Endemic
  • Nostras Verrucosa, Elephantiasis
  • Nostras Verrucosas, Elephantiasis
  • Podoconioses
  • Verrucosa, Elephantiasis Nostras
  • Verrucosas, Elephantiasis Nostras
  • Verrucoses, Lymphostatic
  • Verrucosis, Lymphostatic
  • foot, Mossy
  • foots, Mossy

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL is also available

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History Note

91(75); was see under LYMPHEDEMA 1975-90; was see FILARIASIS & LYMPHEDEMA 1963-74

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Elephantiasis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004604. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004604
  2. Elephantiasis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantiasis
  3. Elephantiasis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16775468