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 M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2011
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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 M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2011
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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 M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2011
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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 M.D. Leigh Vinocur 2011
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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.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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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.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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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.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS BAKALAR 2012
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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.
Propeller Most Popular Stories TimALoftis 2010
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