Preferred Name

filarial elephantiasis

Synonyms

Lymphatic filariasis

Definitions

A filariasis that is characterized by the thickening of the skin and underlying tissues, especially in the legs, male genitals and female breasts, caused by thread-like parasitic worms Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi or Brugia timori, which inhabit the lymphatics. These nematodes are transmitted by mosquitoes. Acute symptoms include fever, lymphadenitis, lymphangitis, funiculitis, and epididymitis. Chronic symptoms include abscesses, hyperkeratosis, polyarthritis, hydroceles, lymphedema, and elephantiasis.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_12211

database_cross_reference

UMLS_CUI:C0013884

NCI:C128360

MESH:D004605

SNOMEDCT_US_2023_03_01:240820001

definition

A filariasis that is characterized by the thickening of the skin and underlying tissues, especially in the legs, male genitals and female breasts, caused by thread-like parasitic worms Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi or Brugia timori, which inhabit the lymphatics. These nematodes are transmitted by mosquitoes. Acute symptoms include fever, lymphadenitis, lymphangitis, funiculitis, and epididymitis. Chronic symptoms include abscesses, hyperkeratosis, polyarthritis, hydroceles, lymphedema, and elephantiasis.

disease has location

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000014

has exact synonym

Lymphatic filariasis

elephantiasis of eyelid

Bancroftian elephantiasis

Bancroftian filarial chyluria

has symptom

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000613

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000263

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000672

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000083

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0019155

has_alternative_id

DOID:13433

has_obo_namespace

disease_ontology

id

DOID:12211

in_subset

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/doid#NCIthesaurus

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/doid#DO_infectious_disease_slim

label

filarial elephantiasis

notation

DOID:12211

prefLabel

filarial elephantiasis

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_37

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1080

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