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.
He relented and closed his eyes. Intrigued, Gabriel relented from his stubborn position before the altar. He relented and spoke, his words garbled. The demon relented after a brief struggle, but something about its unusually quick surrender bothered her. Take two guards with you, he relented at last.