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.
Ventricular hypertrophy,
prostatic hypertrophy,
cardiac hypertrophy,
Muscle hypertrophy,
compensatory hypertrophy,
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▸ 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.
Similar:
hyperplasia,
hyperplasy,
hyperplasty,
pseudohypertrophy,
hypertrophia,
hypercellularity,
macroplasia,
organomegaly,
hypercytosis,
cardiohypertrophy,
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left,
right,
cardiac,
prostatic,
compensatory,
benign,
muscular,
myocardial,
ventricular,
concentric,
medial
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