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
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
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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"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
A, Immediately after removal of the intubation tube; hypertrophies like turbinals are seen projecting into the subglottic lumen.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
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
This auricle then somewhat hypertrophies, but is unable to prevent more or less damming back of the blood into the lungs through the pulmonary veins.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
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
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
Administrative structures inherited from the British empire, and amazingly unchanged in many respects, have hypertrophied into nightmarish bureaucracy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
But it is not necessary to give farther illustrations of this common tendency in some organs to become hypertrophied.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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