ADJECTIVE
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(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells
hypertrophied myocardial fibers
How To Use hypertrophied In A Sentence
- Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
- The presence of an extra rib or hypertrophied muscles of the shoulder or neck can make this even tighter and when the arm is lifted, the vessels can be blocked.
- Thylacoleo are highly specialized brachycephalic predators with greatly hypotrophied molar rows and hypertrophied sectorial third premolars.
- The corresponding larval phenotypes include hypertrophied hematopoietic organs, increased numbers of circulating hemocytes, and abnormal differentiation of lamellocytes that represent up to 50% of the cells.
- Minnesota village, I had never heard of adenoids, hypertrophied tonsils, myopia, hypermetropia, or the relation of these defects and of neglected teeth to malnutrition, truancy, sickness, and dullness. Civics and Health
- In this maelstrom, more of a hypertrophied present than a near future, certain timeless truths, or tropes (or clichés) endure. The Times Literary Supplement
- The right atrium and ventricle were severely dilated and hypertrophied.
- This, we feel, is not the real Uncle Toby of Sterne's objective mood; it is the Uncle Toby of the subjectifying sentimentalist, surveying his character through the false medium of his own hypertrophied sensibilities. Sterne
- Thylacoleo are highly specialized brachycephalic predators with greatly hypotrophied molar rows and hypertrophied sectorial third premolars.
- The corresponding larval phenotypes include hypertrophied hematopoietic organs, increased numbers of circulating hemocytes, and abnormal differentiation of lamellocytes that represent up to 50% of the cells.