hypertrophy
Tissue volume increase
Hypertrophy is the enlargement of an organ or tissue through the growth of its cells rather than an increase in their number.
The term appears most often in discussions of muscle: weight training causes muscle hypertrophy.
In medicine, hypertrophy can signal disease—cardiac hypertrophy indicates an enlarged heart, often from overwork.
The verb means to undergo such enlargement: The left ventricle had hypertrophied.
Muscle enlargement for appearance
musculature · protein · anabolic · testosterone · dumbbells · barbells · lifting · reps
Increase in size
- growthIncrease in size
- expansionIncrease in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- increaseGrowth in amount
adaptation · cellular · tissue · organ · development · response · mechanism · synthesis
Capacity to withstand force
- weightsHeavy objects for lifting
- workoutStructured physical exercise
- exerciseActivity for fitness
- gymExercise facility
fitness · regimen · recovery · nutrition · supplements · periodization · intensity · frequency
Pathological liver enlargement
- adenomaBenign epithelial tumor
- fibrosisPathological connective tissue buildup
- neoplasmAbnormal tissue mass
- tumorAbnormal tissue mass
inflammation · lesion · lymphedema · ventricular · cardiac · prostatic · tonsillar · thyroid
bodybuilding
Muscle enlargement for appearance
pump · musculature · protein · anabolic · testosterone · dumbbells · barbells · lifting · reps · sets
enlargement
Increase in size
- growthIncrease in size
- expansionIncrease in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
increase · adaptation · cellular · tissue · organ · development · response · mechanism · synthesis · signaling
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
gym · fitness · regimen · recovery · nutrition · supplements · periodization · intensity · frequency · stimulus
hepatomegaly
Pathological liver enlargement
- adenomaBenign epithelial tumor
- fibrosisPathological connective tissue buildup
- neoplasmAbnormal tissue mass
tumor · inflammation · lesion · lymphedema · ventricular · cardiac · prostatic · tonsillar · thyroid · abnormal
- fitnessfitness, exercise, gym, workout, running
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- size changesenlarge, enlargement, expand, expansion, shrink
- bodybuildingbodybuilding, muscle, bodybuilders, Mr. Olympia, posing
- medical termsdiagnosis, disorder, surgery, disease, illness
hypertrophyatrophy
Wasting from disuse
hypotrophy · shrinkage · wasting · involution · reduction
hypertrophyhypoplasia
Incomplete organ formation
aplasia · agenesis · underdevelopment · atrophy · dystrophy
hypertrophyatrophy
Wasting from disuse
degeneration · necrosis · dystrophy · catabolism · deterioration