Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting hyperplasia : as, a hyperplastic tonsil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.
- adjective (Biol.) Tending to excess of formative action.
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- adjective of, or relating to
hyperplasia
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Examples
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This process is termed hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis [8].
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To meet future challenges, a new composite "hyperplastic" material capable of absorbing enormous amounts of kinetic energy is the new frontier for armor.
FOXNews.com 2009
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These have important implications in this era of hyperplastic medical guidelines, pay for performance, quality measures which pretend to measure the unmeasurable and the cookbookization of primary care medicine.
When a measurement becomes a target, it is no longer a valid measurment james gaulte 2008
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These have important implications in this era of hyperplastic medical guidelines, pay for performance, quality measures which pretend to measure the unmeasurable and the cookbookization of primary care medicine.
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The leptin deficiency post weight loss/maintenance is related to the former obese individual having hypotrophic (small) fat cells that are hyperplastic (numerous).
Gary Taubes responds | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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The vast majority of them are hyperplastic polyps, non-cancerous.
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A chronic, progressive, hyperplastic-degeneration exists in some cases and the subjects are in time rendered unserviceable because of the burden of getting about encumbered by the affected extremity.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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There remains some hyperplastic tissue and even where the enlargement is slight, the prominent situation of the affection precludes its being unnoticed.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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A suppurating cartilaginous quittor, complicated by the presence of a large amount of hyperplastic tissue, cannot be successfully represented to be an acute and recently developed affection, where a trained practitioner is left to judge the validity of the statement.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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_ This is a general hyperplastic condition of the lymphatic structures in the body, and is seen in enlargement of tonsils, thymus, spleen, as well as of Peyer's patches and mesenteric glands.
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