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UK
/hˈaɪpətɹəfi/
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[ US /ˈhaɪpɝˌtɹoʊfi/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪpɝˌtɹoʊfi/ ]
NOUN
- abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
VERB
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undergo hypertrophy
muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids
How To Use hypertrophy In A Sentence
- An autopsy today found the cause of Hammerdorfer's death was cardiomegaly and biventricular hypertrophy, which refers to an enlarged heart and enlarged ventricles. ABC News: Top Stories
- Cardiac hypertrophy - the enlargement of the heart muscle cells - can be fatal.
- Zhang EY, Stein R, Chang S, Zheng Y, Zderic SA, Wein AJ, Chacko S: Smooth muscle hypertrophy following partial bladder outlet obstruction is associated with overexpression of non-muscle caldesmon. Publications of the Urology Division
- Dr Kevin Soh discusses how adenoid hypertrophy and adenoiditis can cause block nose, hearing loss, snoring, sleep apnea, academic underperformance, and growth retardation in children Drag to Playlist WN.com - Articles related to Crack and cocaine use a significant HIV risk factor for teens
- Objective The clinical observation of treatment with acupuncture and herbs for muscular pseudohypertrophy and progressive myodystrophy.
- Pathology in chronic cholecystitis reveals low grade chronic inflammatory changes with muscle hypertrophy and submucosal lymphocytic and plasma cell infiltration.
- All 6 of these patients presented with shortness of breath and clinical signs of congestive heart failure, and their autopsies showed right ventricle hypertrophy and tricuspid ring dilatation.
- The first is a healthy tracing, and the second indicates enlargement, technically called hypertrophy, of the heart The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- a distant lymphatic prematurely expels her ova; these act as emboli to the nearest lymphatic glands, whence ensues stasis of lymph, regurgitation of lymph, and partial compensation by anastomoses of lymphatic vessels; this brings about hypertrophy of tissues, and may go on to lymphorrhoea or chyluria, according to the site of the obstructed lymphatics. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- Dr Kevin Soh discusses how adenoid hypertrophy and adenoiditis can cause block nose, hearing loss, snoring, sleep apnea, academic underperformance, and growth retardation in children WN.com - Articles related to Crack and cocaine use a significant HIV risk factor for teens