elephantiasis / ˌɛl ə fənˈtaɪ ə sɪs, -fæn- /

📖毕业后词汇象皮病象皮症象形病象牙病

elephantiasis 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Pathology. a chronic filarial disease resulting in lymphatic obstruction, characterized by marked enlargement of the parts affected, especially of the legs and scrotum, transmitted by mosquitoes.
  2. untoward growth or development: bureaucratic elephantiasis.

更多elephantiasis例句

  1. Undoubtedly his existence is a product of the system, a pathological product, a kind of elephantiasis of individualism.
  2. Unfortunately, he was afflicted with elephantiasis, and his appearance did not at all tend to whet the edge of our appetites.
  3. What really bothers us a little is the mosquito affair—the so-called elephantiasis—ask Ross about it.
  4. What are the diagnostic characters of beginning elephantiasis?
  5. But you and I, Gentlemen, let us thank God we are not officially barked about with such a leprous elephantiasis as that.