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.
SYNONYMY NOTE: yield implies a giving way under the pressure or compulsion of force, entreaty, persuasion, etc. [to yield to demands]; capitulate implies surrender to a force that one has neither the strength nor will to resist further [to capitulate to the will of the majority]; succumb stresses the weakness of the one who gives way or the power and irresistibility of that which makes one yield [she succumbed to his charms]; relent suggests the yielding or softening of one in a dominant ...