elephant feet

elephant feet

A term of art referring to the appearance of the invasive front of verrucous carcinoma of mucocutaneous tissues, a low-grade tumour that is wide and flat with minimal focal digit-like extensions, which, to the imaginative eye, has been likened to a pachyderm’s feet.
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He has given stools made of elephant feet to visiting heads of state.
'I hate elephants': Behind the backlash against Botswana's giants
Stools made from elephant feet have been presented to three African leaders by their host in Botswana during a meeting on the future of the mammals, BBC reports.
Botswana gives leaders stools made from elephant feet
It was a particularly cold winter in Harare in 2004, and it was right in the middle of it--and damned near the shortest and coldest day of the year too--when a good friend passed information to me from a friend of his that large numbers of tanned elephant feet were being dropped off at another premises in the business complex where he worked.
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Elephant feet without cuticle trimming developed fluid pockets behind the overgrown cuticles.
Foot diseases in captive elephant
"Having endured elephant feet Mary," he boasts, "the dance floor holds no fears for me." Bruce should sign them up for Strictly now...
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An umbrella stand upheld by elephant feet graced the vestibule of
The Last Elephant
Elephant feet are soft and silent, but the grass swished audibly on their legs.
Adventure: you only get out of your hunt what you're willing to absorb
THE BULL SUDDENLY LET OUT AN EAR-SHATTERING TRUMPET AND THE GROUND BEGAN TO SHAKE WITH THUNDERING ELEPHANT FEET. IN SHORT ORDER ALL WAS QUIET, THE AIR FULL OF BELLOWING DUST.
Party crasher: bowhunting Botswana offers archers copious opportunities for success--as well as high adventure
A BOY with 'elephant feet' could have his life changed forever after being discovered by film makers from Scotland.
The boy with elephant feet; EXCLUSIVE: How a chance meeting with two film makers from Scotland could help kid born with a terrible deformity
Twelve elephant feet, two leopard skins, one full leopard and the head and shoulders of a rhino were also recovered from the estate, which is not being named as investigations continue.
pounds 1/4m ivory seized at hunting hotel
Other items seized at the estate, which is not being named as investigations are continuing, included 12 elephant feet, two leopard skins, one full leopard and the head and shoulders of a rhino.
Police swoop on estate's ivory haul

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