Diseases

Hypertrophy

General increase in bulk of a part or organ due to CELL ENLARGEMENT and accumulation of FLUIDS AND SECRETIONS, not due to tumor formation, nor to an increase in the number of cells (HYPERPLASIA).

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Abstract

General increase in bulk of a part or organ due to CELL ENLARGEMENT and accumulation of FLUIDS AND SECRETIONS, not due to tumor formation, nor to an increase in the number of cells (HYPERPLASIA).

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  • Hypertrophies

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Aspects Covered

35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

NIM; general or unspecified: many precoordinated organ/hypertrophy terms are available; do not confuse with HYPERPLASIA; coord with organ /pathol (IM)

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History Note

65; HYPERTROPHY AND HYPERPLASIA was heading 1963-64

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  1. C23.300.775w

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QZ 140

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hypertrophy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006984. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006984
  2. Hypertrophy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophy
  3. Hypertrophy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216211