Elephantiasis vs. Elephantitis — What's the Difference?

Elephantiasis is the enlargement and hardening of limbs or body parts due to tissue swelling. It is characterised by edema, hypertrophy, and fibrosis of skin and subcutaneous tissues, due to obstruction of lymphatic vessels.

Misconstruction of elephantiasis

Chronic, often extreme enlargement and hardening of cutaneous and subcutaneous tissue, especially of the legs and external genitals, resulting from lymphatic obstruction.

A tropical filarial disease that often leads to this condition as a result of infestation of the lymph glands and vessels with filarial worms; lymphatic filariasis.

(pathology) 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.

Synonym of leprosy.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

Hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis