hypertrophy
Americannoun
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hypertrophies
plural
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abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
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excessive growth or accumulation of any kind.
verb (used with or without object)
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hypertrophies,
present (3rd person singular)
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hypertrophied,
past participle, past
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hypertrophying
present participle
noun
verb
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Present
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hypertrophysimple
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hypertrophiessimple
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have hypertrophiedperfect
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has hypertrophiedperfect
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am hypertrophyingprogressive
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are hypertrophyingprogressive
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is hypertrophyingprogressive
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have been hypertrophyingperfect progressive
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has been hypertrophyingperfect progressive
Past
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hypertrophiedsimple
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had hypertrophiedperfect
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was hypertrophyingprogressive
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were hypertrophyingprogressive
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had been hypertrophyingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of hypertrophy
Example Sentences
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"This neuro-immune-endocrine cooperation synergistically promotes increased production of renin to maintain blood pressure homeostasis, but, on the other hand, severe arteriolar hypertrophy reduces the blood filtration function of the kidney."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
When you do strength training, over time, exercises that at first felt difficult become easier as your muscles increase in strength and size — a process called hypertrophy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2022
Other researchers have noted that years of repeated use can accelerate hypertrophy, the increase of muscle cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
This kind of hypertrophy, as it’s called, is frequently seen in patients who have high blood pressure, when the heart has to work hard to squeeze its payload into the bloodstream.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
This results in the look of “six-pack abs,” as each segment hypertrophies on individuals at the gym who do many sit-ups.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Such states naturally result in increased work on the part of the heart, which as a result, hypertrophies in the left ventricle.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
This causes passive congestion of the lungs, and the right ventricle finds that it must labor to overcome the increased resistance in the pulmonary artery, and hypertrophies to overcome this increased amount of work.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
War, which creates a state of exaltation, hypertrophies all the qualities, all the tendencies, be they for good or for evil.
From Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti
Mentally he was dull; the bones of the face and extremities showed the hypertrophies characteristic of acromegaly, the soft parts not being involved.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes overgrown or "hypertrophied".
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
Or what about those profitless but hypertrophied creatures of the dot-com boom, such as theglobe.com? In 1999 a company called Pixelon raised $35 million, Mr. McCullough notes, to develop video and audio streaming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2018
They had names like Alec, Avery and Shawn; they were, for transhumanists, a startlingly frat-brovian contingent, all laid-back Texan vibes, loosefitting vests, hypertrophied upper bodies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2017
Administrative structures inherited from the British empire, and amazingly unchanged in many respects, have hypertrophied into nightmarish bureaucracy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
And while despoiling these smaller muscles which subtend gentle and delicate artistries, the crude larger ones, hypertrophied by athletic activities, become alike a burden and a curse to their possessor.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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