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Growing problem?
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gigantism
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Gigantism , also known as giantism (from Greek γίγας gigas , "giant", plural γίγαντες gigantes ), is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average . In humans, this condition is caused by over-production of growth ...
WordNet
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n. excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: giantism , overgrowth ] excessive largeness of stature [syn: giantism ]
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The quality or state of being gigantic; being of abnormally large size. 2 A condition where there is over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland in a child before the bone growth plates close, resulting in excessive long bone growth, accompanied ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1854, from Latin gigant- (see gigantic ) + -ism .
Usage examples of gigantism.
Park also calls attention to the difference between acquired gigantism, particularly of the finger and toes, and another condition of congenital gigantism, in which either after or before birth there is a relatively disproportionate, sometimes enormous, overgrowth of perhaps one finger or two, perhaps of a limited portion of a hand or foot, or possibly of a part of one of the limbs.
Let us ignore, for a moment, the gigaton gigantism of present-day arsenals and reflect on what a single megaton could do: it could visit Hiroshima-scale destruction on every state capital in America, with about thirty bombs to spare.
Dull would he truly be of soul who did not prefer its faded splendours, its new hesitancies, to the hot certainties of that transatlantic New Rome with its Nazified architectural gigantism, which employed the oppressions of size to make its human occupants feel like worms .
After that, the human experiment was doomed, first to gigantism due to a maxed-out food supply, and then to extinction, once all the available nutrients had been hoovered up.