hypertrophic
adjUK /hʌɪpəˈtɹɒfɪk/
Etymology From hypertroph(y) + -ic.
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:
2
Of a scar 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
- Derived terms
- antihypertrophic, hypertrophical, hypertrophically, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic gastritis, hypertrophic obesity, hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy, nonhypertrophic, prehypertrophic, prohypertrophic, pseudohypertrophic