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.
reÂ·cede 1. (rÄ­-sÄdâ²) intr.v. reÂ·cedÂ·ed, reÂ·cedÂ·ing, reÂ·cedes. 1. To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark: waited for the floodwaters to recede. 2. To slope away from a point of reference: a man with a chin that recedes.