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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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