What does the word hypertrophy mean?
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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.
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[ Greek, Latin] A condition of overgrowth or of excessive increase in size or compactness of a part. H. consists either in an increase in number of the component elements of a part( Numerical h., Quantitative h.) or in an enlargement of the latter without increase in number( Simple h., True h., Elementary h.). It is caused by very active physiological use of a part( Physiological h.) or by congestion and cell-proliferation produced by pathological processes. H. of a hollow organ is said to be Concentric when the cavity is diminished in size; Eccentric when the cavity is increased; and Simple when the cavity remains of the same size. Cf. Atrophy.
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Usage examples for hypertrophy
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These conditions, eminently favourable to the growth of arts and the pursuit of science, were no less conducive to the hypertrophy of passions, and to the full development of ferocious and inhuman personalities. – Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III. by John Symonds
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A considerable obstacle to the circulation offered by some important structure in a diseased or disordered state, throwing more strain upon the heart, causes hypertrophy of its muscular walls; and this change which is, so far as concerns the primary evil, a remedial one, often entails mischiefs in other organs. – Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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