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Elephantiasis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Elephantiasis Definition The word elephantiasis is a vivid and accurate term for the syndrome it describes...legs, or genitals to elephantoid size. Description True elephantiasis is the result of a parasitic infection caused by three...
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elephantiasis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
elephantiasis , abnormal enlargement of any part...surgery sometimes helps, but any elephantiasis that develops during the disease cannot...Blocking of the lymph channels and elephantiasis can also result from lymphogranuloma...
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Filariasis
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...sources Brugia malayl Brugia timorl Elephantiasis Filariae Lymphatic system Mosquito...particularly likely to be affected. In elephantiasis, a severe form of lymphatic filariasis...the skin of an elephant. Although elephantiasis is unusual, up to half of all men...
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filariasis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
filariasis see elephantiasis .
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worm
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...parasites, such as the hookworm . Other parasitic nematodes include Filaria, the cause of filariasis, which may result in elephantiasis ; Trichinella, the cause of trichinosis ; Ascaris, an intestinal parasite of humans, horses, and pigs; the pinworm...
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Nematoda
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...roundworms); hookworms and pinworms; microfilaria, which live in the blood or lymphatic system causing diseases like elephantiasis; and Trichinella, whose larvae invade and encyst in muscle tissue causing trichinosis. In the course of the Human Genome...
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Lymphogranuloma Venereum
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...abscesses or fistulae in the anal area or in the vagina in women. Long-term blockages in the lymph nodes can produce elephantiasis, a condition in which the patient's upper legs and groin area become greatly enlarged. Patients with chronic LGV infection...
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Manson, Patrick
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...or is associated with vitamin and mineral deficiencies. In 1877, Manson discovered that the crippling disease known as elephantiasis was caused by a filarial worm and transmitted by mosquitoes — the first demonstration that mosquitoes transmitted...
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mosquito
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to which the common house mosquito belongs, are vectors of filariasis, the infection by a filarial worm that causes elephantiasis , and human encephalitis . Mosquitoes have become adapted to extremes of climate and are found far north of the Arctic Circle...
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Patrick Manson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...such diseases as tinea, Calabar swelling, and blackwater fever. In 1878 he observed that filariae, the worms that cause elephantiasis in man, pass part of their life cycle in the Culex mosquito; he thus led the way in the study of the transmission of diseases...
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