Hey, you don’t want to rattle around in my head and figure out how I come up with these posts. It’s not a neat process. It’s often times random and chaotic, sticky and twisted. How the hell I came up with a post on diseases having to do with elephant references, I can’t say. It was a journey that started out looking for some term in my work (typing up medical reports) and ended up getting distracted by a picture of an elephant that got me thinking about medical conditions that involve the elephant as reference. These diseases are as horrible as you can imagine, as no one wants a disease like an elephant, a gazelle maybe, but not a pachyderm.
Elephantiasis: The word elephantiasis is a vivid and accurate term for the syndrome it describes: the gross (visible) enlargement of the arms, legs, or genitals to elephantoid size.
“Elephant Man” Disease: A condition called neurofibromatosis/Proteus syndrome in which large tumors begin to grow on the body.
Tumors:
I think if I were to have an elephant trait, I'll stick with their love of water....
