Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to hypertrophy; producing or tending to produce hypertrophy.
- In snail-shells, reversed sinistrally or dextrally, or abnormally sinistral or dextral, as in
Lanistes and Limacina; ultra-dextral or ultra-sinistral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting
hypertrophy
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Examples
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Several prominent cardiologists cleared Curry to play, but Barry Maron, a world-renowned specialist in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, suggested the DNA test.
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A majority of these cases are due to a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Kills Too Many Young Athletes
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A majority of these cases are due to a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Kills Too Many Young Athletes
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A majority of these cases are due to a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Kills Too Many Young Athletes
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Many dog foods may be deficient in taurine, the result being a cat who suffers a devastating kind of heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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A majority of these cases are due to a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM.
Leigh Vinocur, M.D.: Sudden Cardiac Arrest Kills Too Many Young Athletes
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Or consider the case of basketball star Eddy Curry, who balked when the Chicago Bulls insisted he take a DNA test to determine his potential risk for a sudden heart attack—a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—that had claimed the lives of several basketball stars.
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Keratosis pilaris may be defined as a hypertrophic affection characterized by the formation of pin-head-sized, conical, epidermic elevations seated about the apertures of the hair follicles.
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For most of these, the cause was a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetically-caused thickening of the heart wall that makes it electrically unstable.
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(CBS) Nine-year-old Malkolm Poyer was born with a rare heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, also known by its frightening nickname: Sudden Death Syndrome.
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