pachyderma

1. 1.

   thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction

   Synonymsnevoid elephantiasis

   Broaderelephantiasisgenetic disease

Other forms of pachyderma

plural

pachydermas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pachyderma

What does pachyderma mean?

pachyderma means "thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction".

How many syllables are in pachyderma?

pachyderma has 4 syllables: pa-chy-der-ma. The stress falls on "chy".

What is another word for pachyderma?

Close synonyms include nevoid elephantiasis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pachyderma a common word?

pachyderma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.