elephantiasis (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1580s, from Greek elephantos, genitive of elephas "elephant" (see elephant) + -iasis "pathological or morbid condition." It refers to two diseases, one characterized by thickening of a body part (E. Arabum), the other, older meaning is "disease characterized by skin resembling an elephant's" (E. Græcorum, also called Egyptian leprosy). In Middle English, elephancy (late 14c.).
-iasisyoudaoicibaDictYouDict
medical Latin word-forming element meaning "process; morbid condition," from Greek -iasis, from aorist of verbs in -iao, which often express disease.
nephrolithiasis (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1837, probably from German, from nephro- + lithos "stone" (see litho-) + -iasis "pathological or morbid condition."
sleeping (adj.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
c. 1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant.
It is ill wakyng of a sleapyng dogge. [Heywood, 1562]


It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. [Chaucer, c. 1385]