HYPERTROPHY
\hˈa͡ɪpətɹəfi], \hˈaɪpətɹəfi], \h_ˈaɪ_p_ə_t_ɹ_ə_f_i]\
Definitions of HYPERTROPHY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
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General increase in bulk of a part or organ, not due to tumor formation, nor to an increase in the number of cells.
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By William R. Warner
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Over nourishment: the state of an organ, or part of the body when it grows too large from over-nourishment.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The state of a part in which the nutrition is performed with greater activity; and which, on that account, at length acquires unusual bulk. The part thus affected is said to be hyper'trophied or hyper'trophous. Hypertrophiae is used by Neligan, as Hypertrophien is by Simon, for an order of cutaneous diseases, characterized by hypertrophy of the derma, or epidermis, or both, or of the hair follicles.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Increase in the size of individual cells; to be distinguished from hyperplasia. In a broader sense, increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to an increase in the size or number of its cells, or both, without any of its elements losing their relationship or function.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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