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.
These pro-. cesses include both particle reworking and burrow ventilation.With this definition, bioturbation. acts as an âumbrellaâ term that covers all transport processes and their physical effects on the sub-. stratum. Particle reworking occurs through burrow construction and maintenance, as well as.