The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypertrophic \Hy`per*troph"ic\, Hypertrophical \Hy`per*troph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hypertrophique.] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
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Usage examples of "hypertrophic".
Virchow, leontiasis ossea, is due to a hypertrophic process in the bones of the cranium.
Medplex is a sprawling hypertrophic growth of towers and blocks, all nucleated around this huge building, the original hospital, dating from the Second World War.
The tank smoothly bypassed land obstacles and was about to reach the motorway when - all of a sudden -something resembling a hypertrophic spider crawled out from a roadside ditch.
He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.
Her case sounded as if she had a form of hypercalcemia, which was manifested by any number of diseases ranging from rickets and steomalacia to chronic hypertrophic arthritis.
Fairy tales, ghost-stories, and the like easily make the childish imagination, of itself very active, hypertrophic, and cloud the judgment concerning actual events.
Several years ago, two Parisian naturalists named Dubuisson and Gille developed a method of inducing hypertrophic growth in a seminal foetus.
Powell, it may become so hypertrophic as to weigh as much as 40 pounds.
Figure 279 represents a somewhat similar hypertrophic condition of the scalp and face reported in the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.
I heard horses converging on us from the left and the right and that hypertrophic white stallion of his took off like a big bird.
He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.
They were all suffering from something called hypertrophic pulmonary osteodystrophy, which is what you would get if you were breathing a lot of abrasive ash—and they must have been breathing a lot of it because the ash was feet thick for hundreds of miles.