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- noun
hypertrophy
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Examples
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Your stepdaughter has an organic defect in the heart — hypertrophia cordialis!
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He gives examples of the electrocardiograms of patients with hypertrophia of the right ventricle during mitral insufficiency, hypertrophia of the left ventricle during aorta insufficiency, hypertrophia of the left auricle during mitral stenosis, of patients with degeneration of the heart muscle, also of electrocardiograms during various degrees of heart block, during extrasystoles, true «atypical heart systoles» of two different types, as well as during what is now called
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He was in reality the victim no less than the product of a valuable faculty carried to hypertrophia and monstrosity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Your stepdaughter has an organic defect in the heart -- hypertrophia cordialis!
The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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