hypertrophy

WOTD - 4 March 2006    

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Etymology

From hyper- + -trophy.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /haɪˈpɜːtrəfi/
• (US) IPA: /haɪˈpɝːtrəfi/

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Noun

hypertrophy (countable and uncountable; plural hypertrophies)

1. (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells
2. (uncountable, bodybuilding) 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.

Translations

Translations

Chinese: Mandarin: 肥大 (zh) (féidà) Croatian: hipertrofija Dutch: hypertrofie French: hypertrophie (fr) f. German: Hypertrophie (de) f. Greek: υπερτροφία (el) (ipertrofía) f.

Italian: ipertrofia (it) Japanese: 肥大 (ja) (ひだい, hidai) Polish: hipertrofia Portuguese: hipertrofia f. Romanian: hipertrofie Russian: гипертрофия (ru) (gipertrofíja) f. Spanish: hipertrofia (es) f.

Verb

hypertrophy (third-person singular simple present hypertrophies, present participle hypertrophying, simple past and past participle hypertrophied)

1. (intransitive, of a tissue or organ): To increase in size

Translations

Translations

French: s'hypertrophier Greek: υπερτροφώ (ipertrofo), αυξάνω (afksano) Japanese: 肥大する (ja) (ひだいする, hidai suru)

Portuguese: hipertrofiar Romanian: hipertrofia Spanish: hipertrofiarse

Antonyms

• atrophy