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  • Mid-level Reps will cause muscular Hypertrophy, which is a fancy way of saying they will bulk you up.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Mid-level Reps will cause muscular Hypertrophy, which is a fancy way of saying they will bulk you up.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Did you know that the bodybuilders who usually use 10-12 reps look really soft compared to us who train heavy bcos of their Sarcoplasmic Hypertrophy which is not the growth of the real muscle protein?

    www.hardwarezone.com.sg 2009

  • Hypertrophy - The right ventricle becomes thicker and more muscular than normal as a result of working harder to pump blood through the narrow pulmonary valve.

    Tetralogy of Fallot 2008

  • Hypertrophy is an increase in size of individual cells.

    Cellular adaptation to toxicity 2007

  • Hypertrophy generally occurs in situations where the organ or tissue can not adapt to an increased demand by formation of more cells.

    Cellular adaptation to toxicity 2007

  • ~ Double Trouble Hypertrophy -- "Most of us poor slobs have jobs so we don't have the luxury of doing two-a-days, but we figure since it's summer there are a bunch of feckless college students out there doing one bong hit after another who just might be able to take advantage of this program."

    Speedlinking 6/7/07 William Harryman 2007

  • But even so secluded a place as Cheasing Eyebright could not rest for long in the theory of Hypertrophy — Contagious or not — in view of the growing hubbub about the Food.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • Hypertrophy — Contagious Hypertrophy — which you have about as much claim to control as you have to control the solar system.

    The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

  • * The heart problems - specifically Pulmonary Stenosis and the Hypertrophy.

    brile Diary Entry brile 2003

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