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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
hypertrophy
 
SYLLABICATION:hy·per·tro·phy
PRONUNCIATION:  h-pûrtr-f
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. hy·per·tro·phies
A nontumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue as a result of an increase in the size rather than the number of constituent cells: muscle hypertrophy.
INTRANSITIVE & TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: hy·per·tro·phied, hy·per·tro·phy·ing, hy·per·tro·phies
To grow or cause to grow abnormally large.
OTHER FORMS:hyper·trophic (-trfk, -trfk) —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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