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hypertrophy

[ UK /hˈa‍ɪpətɹəfi/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪpɝˌtɹoʊfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
VERB
  1. undergo hypertrophy
    muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids

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  • Amongst the former may be noted as the more common, erectile swelling and hypertrophy of the mucous membrane covering the inferior turbinated bones, and nasal polypi growing from the middle turbinal and middle meatal region. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Objective The clinical observation of treatment with acupuncture and herbs for muscular pseudohypertrophy and progressive myodystrophy.
  • The term "phyllomania," as ordinarily used, is applied to an unwonted development of leafy tissue, as in some begonias where the scales or ramenta are replaced by small leaflets, or as in some cabbage leaves, from the surface of which project, at right angles to the primary plane, other secondary leafy plates; but these are, strictly speaking, cases of hypertrophy (see Hypertrophy). Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Scientists believe the overgrowth associated with Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome and hemihypertrophy may develop because of improper inactivation of one or more growth-suppressing genes, or because of overexpression of genes that encourage cell growth. Beckwith-Weidemann Syndrome
  • In older children, nasal polyps and turbinate hypertrophy must be ruled out.
  • The side effects of this compound include edema, cardiac hypertrophy, and hypokalemia; it should be prescribed with caution 772. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • However, a high PSA score does not always indicate cancer and can be caused by other prostate diseases such as benign prostatic hypertrophy or prostatitis (inflamed prostate).
  • It is the effort to put an end to the phenomenon or to the vice of bureaucratism, this is to say that which we call bureaucratism, which is that hypertrophy of the administrative offices, of that accumulation of bureaucratic jobs of that type. 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF CDR
  • The harsh, dry skin, epidermic and papillary hypertrophy, the furfuraceous or plate-like scaliness, the greater development upon the extensor surfaces, a history of the affection dating from early childhood, and the absence of inflammatory symptoms. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
  • M. Delavaud [497] puts on record a case of hypertrophy in the leaves of the common elm, resulting in the formation of an additional lobe and a return to the tricostate type. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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