Definition of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

1. Noun. Hypertrophy of a limb.

Generic synonyms: Elephantiasis

Medical Definition of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

1. Enlargement of a limb due to diffuse neurofibromatosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elephantiasis Neuromatosa

elephant seal
elephant seals
elephant shrew
elephant shrews
elephant tree
elephant yam
elephantbird
elephantbirds
elephantdom
elephantfish
elephantfishes
elephanthood
elephantiac
elephantiases
elephantiasis neuromatosa (current term)
elephantiasis telangiectodes
elephanticide
elephantine
elephantitis
elephantlike
elephantoid
elephantoid fever
elephantoidal
elephantry
elephants
elesclomol
eleusine

Literary usage of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"In some cases all of the nerves of the body are included in the proliferative disease. elephantiasis neuromatosa Elephantiasis ..."

2. A Manual of surgery for students and physicians by Francis T. Stewart (1921)
"Elephantine thickening of the entire cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue covering a part, eg, the leg (elephantiasis neuromatosa, ..."

3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1904)
"(4) elephantiasis neuromatosa. (5) Pigmentation of the skin associated with neuro-fibroma- tosis. (6) " Secondary malignant neuroma" (Garre, 21), ..."

4. General pathology, or, The science of the causes, nature and course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1899)
"... to distinguish different varieties of elephantiasis, named, according to the structure of the hypertrophie tissue, elephantiasis neuromatosa 117), ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"These subcutaneous growths at times may lie diffuse and reach an enormous size, producing a condition called "elephantiasis neuromatosa. ..."

6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1901)
"... the elephantiasis neuromatosa, the pigmentation of skin associated with neurofibro- matosis, ..."

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