Elephantiasis

noun

1. Chronic, often extreme enlargement and hardening of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the legs and external genitals, resulting from lymphatic obstruction and usually caused by infestation of the lymph glands and vessels with a filarial worm.
2. A name given to several forms of skin-disease.
3. A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
4. A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
5. hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis