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FILARIASIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filariasis mean?
• FILARIASIS (noun)
The noun FILARIASIS has 1 sense:
1. a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels
Familiarity information: FILARIASIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("filariasis" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Context examples
Lymphatic filariasis is a mosquito-borne disease that often leaves its victims with disabling hydrocele (accumulation of fluid in the scrotum), lymphedema or elephantiasis after the infection has cleared.
(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)
Originally developed to measure lymphedema in cancer patients following surgical removal of the lymph nodes, the new device has been adapted for those afflicted by elephantiasis caused by lymphatic filariasis infection.
(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)
A portable 3-D scanning device developed by Sri Lankan and US researchers can quickly measure limb enlargement of patients with the disfiguring condition elephantiasis that resulted from lymphatic filariasis infection.
(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)
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