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How to use hypertrophy in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Hypertrophy means an increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells. Example: “But when text hypertrophies into a riot of contending inscripturations, we lose too much of what matters most in writing.”

Examples of hypertrophy by meaning

verbTo enlarge or extend.

  • But when text hypertrophies into a riot of contending inscripturations, we lose too much of what matters most in writing.2020 January 29, Douglas Groothuis, “Texts, Graphics, and Culture: On the Decline of Reading and Civilization”, in Douglas Groothuis...
  • Like a well-exercised muscle, 'network' has hypertrophied into a master concept.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 76

More sentences with hypertrophy

  • Stephanie pressed Steve's 25-inch chest (64 cm) into the crevice between her own spathic, hypertrophied milk-producing organs.1996 April 14, Lingster, “NEW: AMAZON ARTIFACT 7/8 (M/F cs ama. trans.)”, in alt.amazon-women.admirers (Usenet). From the entry spathic
  • Gross Anatomical — in the form of contractures, atonicities, hypertrophies, hyperplasms, atrophies, fatty infiltrations, tumors, etc.1940, Carter Harrison Downing, Simplified Spinal Technique, page 3. From the entry atonicity
  • Wecker found with ophthalmoscope a pale papilla, indications of hypertrophy of cellular tissue, very dilated veins, and some little hæmorrhagic spots.2023, Walter Rivington, A Case of Pulsating Tumour of the Left Orbit, page 107. From the entry dilated
  • Masseter hypertrophy may become apparent in persistent grinders.2010, A. J. Larner, A Dictionary of Neurological Signs, page 68. From the entry grinder
  • Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that.2005, James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Grove Atlantic, page 40. From the entry amenity
  • Lapides has urged ureterocutaneous transplantation only in cases of thick-walled hypertrophied ureters where one can expect a better periureteral vascular network than in normal ureters.1967, Philip R. Roen, Atlas of Urologic Surgery, page 128. From the entry ureterocutaneous
  • In girls wearing casuals, ugly hypertrophied skin over the heels was frequently noted, probably due to the loose shoe moving as they walked.1959, The Medical Officer, page 158. From the entry casual
  • Pulmonary arteriopathy may be plexogenic (medial hypertrophy, intimal fibrosis and lesions involving the entire vessel wall) or thrombotic (medial hypertrophy, thrombosis and eccentric non-laminar intimal fibrosis).2014, Anjeleena Kumar Gupta, Anjali Ghera, Shashank Pandey, “Liver Transplantation: Porto-pulmonary Hypertension”, in Jayashree Sood…. From the entry plexogenic
  • Among peirosaurids, the hypertrophied, labiolingually slightly flattened teeth of the North African Albian Hamadasuchus are the most similar to the specimen described here in having labial fluting and serrated carinae.2015, Attila Ősi et al., “An enigmatic crocodyliform tooth from the bauxites of western Hungary suggests hidden mesoeucrocodylian…. From the entry labiolingually

Meaning of hypertrophy

  1. noun An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
  2. noun 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.
  3. verb Of a tissue or organ, to increase in size.

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Questions about hypertrophy in a sentence

How do you use hypertrophy in a sentence?
Hypertrophy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “But when text hypertrophies into a riot of contending inscripturations, we lose too much of what matters most in writing.”
What is a short sentence with hypertrophy?
“Masseter hypertrophy may become apparent in persistent grinders.”
What does hypertrophy mean?
Hypertrophy means an increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.

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