hypertrophy
Meaning of hypertrophy
- An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells.
- Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
verb
(of a tissue or organ): To increase in size.
Information about hypertrophy
- The plural form of hypertrophy is: hypertrophies.
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Hyphenation of hypertrophy
hy-per-tro-phy
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- hypertrophy is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
hypertrophy antonyms
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Translation of hypertrophy
- Spanish: hipertrofia
- Italian: ipertrofia
- Portuguese: hipertrofia
- French: hypertrophie
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