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
Other Word Forms
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Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
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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For example, the diabetic human heart organoids were larger, suggesting signs of cardiac hypertrophy -- a first hallmark of maternal pregestational diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024
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
The longitudinal growth of bone is a result of cellular division in the proliferative zone and the maturation of cells in the zone of maturation and hypertrophy.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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
Like other hypertrophies on a free surface, they tend to become pedunculated, and so acquire a limited range of movement.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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
In other words, the heart must gradually become accustomed to the changed conditions, and, as a result of increased work, the muscle hypertrophies.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
In simple chronic renal diseases the heart first normally hypertrophies to overcome the increased blood tension and increased resistance.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
It is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes overgrown or "hypertrophied".
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2023
That muscle swiftly hypertrophied, or bulked up, providing an accelerated version of resistance training.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
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
The electric dependency of every aspect of modern society is hypertrophied in cities.
From Forbes ● Nov. 28, 2012
When the organ is hypertrophied and is already working against an enormous peripheral resistance, a slight excess of work put upon it may cause a dilatation of the chambers with the resulting broken compensation.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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