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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.