elephantiasis
发音
英 [ˌelɪfənˈtaɪəsɪs]
美 [ˌɛləfənˈtaɪəsɪs]
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- n.
- 象皮肿
- 肿大
单词词源
elephantiasis 象皮肿（因淋巴系统阻塞而引起的身体肿胀）
来自拉丁语elephant，象。-asis, 疾病后缀。
双语例句
- 1. According to who , the infection usually begins in childhood but often takes years to cause elephantiasis .
- 根据who的数据，感染通常在儿童时期发生，但要花上几年才引发象皮病。
- 2. Since 2008 , for example , volunteers in sierra leone have distributed drugs to fight elephantiasis , locally dubbed " big fut " .
- 例如自2008年起，塞拉利昂的志愿者开始分发药品抗击象皮病，当地称此为“大规模行动”。
- 3. With river blindness , black flies spread larvae that when grown destroy eye tissue ; mosquitoes do the same for the worms that block the lymphatic system in elephantiasis ; hookworm , roundworm and whipworm are soil-born .
- 河盲症，是由黑蝇产卵传播，而卵生长时破坏眼部组织的疾病；蚊子以同样的方法传播蠕虫，这些蠕虫会堵塞淋巴系统从而导致产生象皮病；十二指肠虫，蛔虫以及鞭虫都来通过土壤传染。
- 4. But it also kills several tropical parasites , including the mosquito-borne ones that cause lymphatic filariasis-a disease also called elephantiasis for the horribly swollen limbs suffered by patients-and those carried by black flies that cause onchocerciasis , or river blindness .
- 然而它也杀灭数种热带寄生虫，其中包括几种蚊媒寄生虫，可引起淋巴丝虫病因病人的肢体发生可怕的肿胀，故亦称为象皮病以及那些由黑蝇携带的寄生虫，可致盘尾丝虫病，又称河盲症。