Usually means: Increase in size of cells.
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  1. hypertrophy: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypertrophy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypertrophy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypertrophy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypertrophy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hypertrophy, hypertrophy: Wordnik
  7. hypertrophy: Wiktionary
  8. hypertrophy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hypertrophy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hypertrophy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hypertrophy: Dictionary.com
  12. Hypertrophy (medical): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hypertrophy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hypertrophy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hypertrophy: Rhymezone
  16. Hypertrophy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hypertrophy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hypertrophy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  20. Hypertrophy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Hypertrophy: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. Hypertrophy (medical), hypertrophy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypertrophy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Hypertrophy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. hypertrophy: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
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  8. hypertrophy: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
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  10. Hypertrophy (medical), hypertrophy: Medical dictionary
  11. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
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  13. Hypertrophy: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. Hypertrophy: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Hypertrophy: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypertrophy)

noun:  (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
noun:  (uncountable, bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
verb:  (intransitive, of a tissue or organ) To increase in size.
verb:  (by extension) To enlarge or extend.

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