pachydermia (pakidermia)

[NL., Gr. παχυδερμία, thickne of skin, The legs, scrotum, and labia are most frequently affected, and they may reach an enormous size, being hard and either smooth or warty. A discharge of lymph is frequent. The Filaria sanguinis-hominis seems to be the cause of at least some of the forms. Also called elephantiasis Ara bum, bucnemia, Barbados leg, sparyosis, and elephant opus, pachydermoid (pak-i-der'moid), a. [ Now as I write, short of all meat, without an ounce of walrus for sick or sound, my thoughts recall the frost tempered junks of this pachydermoid amphibian as the highest of longed-for luxuries. Kane, Sec. Grinn. Exp., II. 16.