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hypertrophical

hypertrophical is the alternative form of hypertrophic.

Meaning of hypertrophic

Adjective

hypertrophic (comparative more hypertrophic, superlative most hypertrophic)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
    • Yet these increasingly hypertrophic forms of masculinity existed in tension with ideals of obedience, courtesy, cultural refinement and charity that were still viewed as markers of the ‘gentleman’.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 360
    1. Raised but not to the extent of a keloid. Hypertrophic scars stay within the original area of a wound, while keloids extend beyond.
      • Coordinate term: atrophic

Forms of hypertrophical

comparativemore hypertrophical
superlativemost hypertrophical

Questions about hypertrophical

What is hypertrophical the alternative form of?
Hypertrophical is the alternative form of hypertrophic.

Words near hypertrophical in the dictionary

  1. hypertrophias
  2. hypertrophic
  3. hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  4. hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
  5. hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
  6. hypertrophical
  7. hypertrophically
  8. hypertrophied
  9. hypertrophies
  10. hypertrophous
  11. hypertrophy

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