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The word "hypertrophy" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe excessive growth of body tissues or organs. For example: "The patient's heart showed signs of hypertrophy due to the increased strain of heavy physical labor".
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hypertrophy
verb
To increase in size
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A postmortem revealed she died from ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the cardiac muscle of the heart) and obstructive sleep apnea due to morbid obesity, Hull coroner's court heard.
In this condition there is a ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis (narrowing of the opening to the pulmonary artery), deviation of the aorta to override the ventricular septum above the ventricular septal defect, and right ventricular hypertrophy (thickening of the muscle of the right ventricle).
The loss of two-thirds of Hungary's territory in 1918 and the directives of a centrally planned economy that existed from 1945 until the late 1980s exacerbated the hypertrophy of Budapest in relation to the rest of the country, although by 1969 the capital's share of the country's industrial workforce had been reduced to about one-half.
This is called a compensatory reaction and may occur either by some increase in cell size (hypertrophy), by an increase in the rate of cell division (hyperplasia), or both.
Clinically, the cardiomyopathies fall into three categories: dilated cardiomyopathy, characterized by ventricular dilation and often by symptoms of congestive heart failure; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, characterized by hypertrophy of the ventricle, particularly the left ventricle; and restrictive cardiomyopathy, marked by scarring of the ventricle and impairment of filling in diastole.
This overdevelopment, or hypertrophy, is commonly observed in the calf muscles of the leg.
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It has been each of those things, but most of all it has been a crisis of central banking.The central banks were present at the creation, as asset prices inflated and credit markets hypertrophied.
Unfortunately, virtually the whole training of historians is devoted to reading written texts, so that skill is hypertrophied, while the ability to interpret material objects is underdeveloped.
All the parts of the creature — eyes, teeth, belly, tail — have been separated and are arranged in the foreground so that teeth or ears or claws are hypertrophied whereas other important parts are diminutive.
Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.
Later he followed "Ditch That" with "Walkin' on the Moon," for a climactic run in which his band sounded like a hypertrophied go-go outfit, the sweetness of the synths cutting against the meatiness of the percussion.
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