Definition of Hypertrophic

1. a. Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Definition of Hypertrophic

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hypertrophic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Hypertrophic

1. Relating to or characterised by hypertrophy. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypertrophic

hypertrichiasis
hypertrichophrydia
hypertrichosis
hypertrichosis lanuginosa
hypertrichosis partialis
hypertrichosis universalis
hypertridimensional
hypertriglyceridaemia
hypertriglyceridaemias
hypertriglyceridemia
hypertriglyceridemias
hypertriton
hypertritons
hypertroph
hypertrophia
hypertrophic (current term)
hypertrophic arthritis
hypertrophic cervical pachymeningitis
hypertrophic dystrophy
hypertrophic gastritis
hypertrophic interstitial neuropathy
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
hypertrophic rhinitis
hypertrophic rosacea
hypertrophic scar
hypertrophical
hypertrophied

Literary usage of Hypertrophic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"CASE IL CONGENITAL hypertrophic PYLORIC STENOSIS THE second patient is a breast-fed ... He presents all the classical symptoms of congenital hypertrophic ..."

2. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"hypertrophic cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver is very much ... An essential difference between atrophic and hypertrophic cirrhosis is that in the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"hypertrophic NODULAR GLIOSIS. BY JOSEPH SAILER, MD, Associate in the Pepper ... hypertrophic nodular gliosis of the brain does not appear to have escaped ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"IS THERE A PRIMARY CORD LESION IN PSEUDO- hypertrophic PARALYSIS? BY VP GIBNEY, MD, NEW YORK. THIS is not a paper presented to set forth all that is new or ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"C^SAREAN SECTION FOB hypertrophic ELONGATION OF THE CERVIX UTERI. COLEMAN (American Journal, of Obstetrics, November, 1888) reports a case of ..."

6. Essentials of Refraction and the Diseases of the Eye by Edward Jackson, Edward Baldwin Gleason (1890)
"hypertrophic Rhinitis. What is hypertrophic rhinitis ? hypertrophic rhinitis is a chronic inflammation and hypertrophy of the nasal mucous membrane and ..."

7. Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System: Delivered at La Salpêtrière by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Illustrative cases. h hypertrophic cervical meningitis. ... Characters which distinguish hypertrophic cervical pachymeningitis from 3b amyotrophic lateral ..."

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