None of which should detract from the Voyager programme's momentous achievements. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, dispatched 15 days earlier but now trailing because of its excursion to Uranus and Neptune, have offered glimpses of the four gas giants and a slew of strange astronomical phenomena.
Elephantiasis is a symptom of a variety of diseases, where parts of a person's body swell to massive proportions. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti.
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: 1  Elephantiasis nostras, due to longstanding chronic lymphangitis. 2  Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti.3  Nonfilarial elephantiasis or podoconiosis, an immune disease affecting the lymph vessels. Elephantiasis tropica or lymphatic filariasis, caused by a number of parasitic worms, particularly Wuchereria bancrofti. 2  Nonfilarial elephantiasis or podoconiosis, an immune disease affecting the lymph vessels.