Hypertrophy

Quick meaning: Hypertrophy is a noun meaning (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.

Meaning

(countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) Of a tissue or organ, to increase in size.
2. (by extension) To enlarge or extend.

Example Sentences

Like a well-exercised muscle, 'network' has hypertrophied into a master concept.

But when text hypertrophies into a riot of contending inscripturations, we lose too much of what matters most in writing.

Ectopic chondrocyte hypertrophy has been demonstrated in OA, suggesting that the pathogenetical process involves a recapitulation of endochondral ossification [ 11 – 13 ].

Word Forms

• hypertrophies
• hypertrophying
• hypertrophied

Antonyms for hypertrophy

Common opposites include atrophy, hypotrophy, hyperplasia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overgrowth, enlargement, enlarged, dilatation, expansion, augmentation.

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