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    Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is best known from dramatic photos of people with grossly enlarged or swollen arms and legs. The disease is caused by parasitic worms, including Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori, all transmitted by mosquitoes. Lymphatic filariasis currently affects 120 million people worldwide, and 40 million of these people have serious disease.
    When an infected female mosquito bites a person, she may inject the worm larvae, called microfilariae, into the blood. The microfilariae reproduce and spread throughout the bloodstream, where they can live for many years. Often disease symptoms do not appear until years after infection. As the parasites accumulate in the blood vessels, they can restrict circulation and cause fluid to build up in surrounding tissues. The most common, visible signs of infection are excessively enlarged arms, legs, genitalia, and breasts.
    Medicines to treat lymphatic filariasis are most effective when used soon after infection, but they do have some toxic side effects. In addition, the disease is difficult to detect early. Therefore, improved treatments and laboratory tests are

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      Elephantitis commonly referred to Julie disease. A chronic swelling of the legs coupled with the formation of fibrous tumerous growths.

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        A horrible, horrible thing to have!!
        Passed on by a insect, and something a family does not like to talk about.

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          After smoking out of a elephant pipe and being beyond stoned, elephantitis starts to kick in

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            A [chronic], often extreme enlargement and hardening of hte cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the legs and the [scrotum], resulting from lymphatic obstruction, and usually caused by a nematode worm, Wuchareria bancrofti.

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              slang for the deforming disease known as elephantiasis(a good example of how a word related to health care can be misheard so easily)

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                the disease where the penis is very small, but the testicles are EXTREMELY large

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                  its when your balls are big and saggy. Anyway, you guys got the rhyme wrong both times.
                  Do your balls hang low do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a continental soldier? Do your balls...hang...low?

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                    The condition in which a white male has an extremely large penis. Almost comparable in size to a black male of similiar build.

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                      A [chronic], often extreme enlargement and hardening of hte cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the legs and the [scrotum], resulting from lymphatic obstruction, and usually caused by a nematode worm, Wuchareria bancrofti.

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