Types of Elephantiasis. Elephantiasis is a consequence of swelling due to lymph accumulation (lymphedema). Since most cases are due to lymphatic filariasis, it is important to have an understanding of this disease, how it is contracted and the mechanism of the disease process which eventually leads to elephantiasis.
1. verb. If you relent, you allow someone to do something that you had previously refused to allow them to do. Finally his mother relented and gave permission for her youngest son to marry. 2. verb. If bad weather relents, it improves.
Historical Examples. 1  Wanhope had the effect of appealing to Minver, but the painter would not relent. 2  Your mother is of opinion, you say, that at last my friends will relent. 3  That it could soften or relent, appeared next to impossible. 4  We shrink not from death, nor relent before any of thy gods.