of an organ or body part Excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells:
— Hypertrophied myocardial fibers.

synoniem: enlarged.

Roget 194: expanded, etc. v.; larger, etc. (large) etc. 192; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform^†; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied^†; edematous, oedematous^†, obese, puffy, pursy^†, blowzy, bigswoln^†, distended; patulous; bulbous etc. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big etc. 192; abdominous^†, enchymatous^†, rhipidate^†; tumefacient^†, tumefying^†.    ... meer laten zien

Abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ.

Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation^†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^†; obesity etc. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^†.    dilatability, expansibility.    germination, growth, upgrowth^†; accretion etc. 35; budding, gemmation^†.    overgrowth, overdistension^†; hypertrophy, tympany^†.    bulb etc. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.    [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: hypertrofie

Undergo hypertrophy.