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Definition of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

1. Noun. Hypertrophy of a limb.

Medical Definition of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

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

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elephantiasis Neuromatosa

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Literary usage of Elephantiasis neuromatosa

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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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