Associations to the word «Hypertrophy»
Noun
- Regression
- Anomaly
- Adsorption
- Signaling
- Beta
- Mutation
- Baseline
- Increase
- Disease
- Defect
- Thickness
- Homo
- Scatter
- Cell
- Fiber
- Rubber
- Differentiation
- Carcinoma
- Secretion
- Growth
- Pressure
- Diabetes
- Heart
- Estrogen
- Valve
- Decrease
- Duct
- Bowel
- Urine
- Islet
- Antagonist
- Synthesis
- Tendon
- Progression
- Sis
- Subcommittee
- Ventilation
- Breast
- Cancer
- Sap
- Sal
- Tract
- Lobe
- Protein
- Dose
- Toxicity
- Alteration
- Patient
- Menace
- Mba
- Supervision
- Stress
- Deficiency
- Precaution
- Stratum
- Intestine
- Rn
- Symptom
- Induction
- Replication
- Cause
- Diagnosis
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
HYPERTROPHY, noun. (countable) (medicine) An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells
HYPERTROPHY, 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.
HYPERTROPHY, verb. (intransitive) (of a tissue or organ): To increase in size
Dictionary definition
HYPERTROPHY, noun. Abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ.
HYPERTROPHY, verb. Undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids".
Wise words
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