Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions.
Some conditions that have this symptom include:
Elephantiasis nostras, due to longstanding chronic lymphangitis
Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti. More than 120 million people, mostly in Africa and Southeast Asia, are affected.
Nonfilarial elephantiasis or podoconiosis, an immune disease affecting the lymph vessels
Elephantiasis, Grade 3 lymphedema which may occur in people with breast cancer.
Genital elephantiasis, end result of lymphogranuloma venereum
Proteus syndrome, the genetic disorder of the so-called Elephant Man
