hypertrophy

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: hy=per=tro=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypertrophy, n. [Gr. "ype`r over, beyond + nourishment, fr. to nourish: cf. F. hypertrophie.].

 A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypertrophy, n. the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells.

Derivative

hypertrophic adj. hypertrophied adj.

Etymology

mod.L hypertrophia (as HYPER-, Gk - trophia nourishment)

THESAURUS

hypertrophy

abandon, blossom, boundlessness, brew, burgeon, develop, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, flourish, gather, germinate, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grow, grow up, hyperbole, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, increase, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, mature, monstrousness, mushroom, nimiety, outgrow, outrageousness, outsize, overdevelop, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrow, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overtop, overweight, procreate, pullulate, radicalism, reproduce, shoot up, spring up, sprout, sprout up, thrive, too much, too-muchness, tower, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

ROGET THESAURUS

hypertrophy

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.