Muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We have what the anthropologist Pascal Boyer has called a hypertrophy of social cognition. From Wordnik.com. [Is God an Accident?] Reference
The first is a healthy tracing, and the second indicates enlargement, technically called hypertrophy, of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
In mice with RGS2, by contrast, the dangerous muscle expansion, known as hypertrophy, was delayed, growing only 30 percent, and no mice died. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
In the mice with RGS2, the dangerous muscle expansion, known as hypertrophy, was delayed, growing by only 30\%, the researchers found, and none of those mice died. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
(aka hypertrophy) but it'll really stimulate neuromuscular efficiency. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The amount of hypertrophy which is sometimes seen in the mammae is extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The amount of hypertrophy which is sometimes seen in the mammæ is extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
= -- Most cultivated fruits are in a state of true hypertrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Palpate the main peripheral nerves to detect any hypertrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Risk of digestive problems: gingival hypertrophy, nausea, vomiting. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Her hypertrophy hasn't improved but hasn't worsened so we are status quo. From Wordnik.com. [brile Diary Entry] Reference
This matter will be more fully treated of under the head of hypertrophy and enation. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Commonly termed as hypertrophy, it is a main feature of heart failure and can be fatal. From Wordnik.com. [One Way Out] Reference
A very curious illustration of hypertrophy of the flower-stalk is recorded and figured by M. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
So the atrophy of the stamens, in some flowers, is coincident with the hypertrophy of the pistil. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
At times the hypertrophy is as a huge and compact enlargement occupying the position of the frog. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
In their scurvy cases they find definite evidence of the enlargement or hypertrophy of this organ. From Wordnik.com. [The Vitamine Manual] Reference
Common causes for hypertrophy are increased work or stress placed on an organ or hormonal stimulation. From Wordnik.com. [Cellular adaptation to toxicity] Reference
Second, it is the hypertrophy of certain administrative functions, often as the result of this concept. From Wordnik.com. [6TH REVOLUTIN ANNIVERSARY] Reference
If the hypertrophy of the financial sector wasn't good for the nonfinancial sector, whom was it good for?. From Wordnik.com. ['13 Bankers' In 4 Pictures: Why Wall Street Profits Are Out Of Whack] Reference
An enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy, or BPH, is a normal part of aging for men. From Wordnik.com. [Flomax goes generic; more choices for men with enlarged prostate] Reference
Or there may occur erosions of the parts with eventual hypertrophy and loss of function, partial or complete. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
Recurrent attacks of this disturbance cause hypertrophy of the lymph vessels and in some cases lymphangiectasis. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
This lesion may be a sunken area or, as is frequently the case, a greatly enlarged swelling, known as a hypertrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
A second solution would be to curtail the hypertrophy of protectionism that made all this happen in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
The caseous material of canker is also present, as is a disposition to hypertrophy of the exposed sensitive structures. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
An extraordinary degree or a decided hypertrophy of emotional susceptibility is as dangerous a trait as its possession in. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The hypertrophy was such a pronounced one and in other respects such a typical example of the disease that I photographed it. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
In the second period, but not in the first, increased use leads to hypertrophy of the functional structure, disuse to atrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
When cells hypertrophy, components of the cell increase in numbers with increased functional capacity to meeting increased cell needs. From Wordnik.com. [Cellular adaptation to toxicity] Reference
The main feature of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is an excessive thickening of the heart muscle (hypertrophy literally means to thicken). From Wordnik.com. [brile Diary Entry] Reference
It is great experience alone that can diagnose hydro-pericardium from hypertrophy of the substance of the heart by either of these means. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
In addition, it may be as well to remember that death sometimes occurs suddenly in exophthalmic goitre, hypertrophy of the thymus, and in. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
It is this hypertrophy of the laminæ and the pressure of the exudate that causes the bulging and increased growth of the horn at the toe. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
The formation of bulbs in the axils of the leaves, as happens occasionally in tulips, is further alluded to under the head of hypertrophy. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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