adaptive hypertrophy

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Hypertrophic enlargement in response to a condition, such as the thickening of the walls of a hollow organ when there is obstruction to outflow.

adaptive hypertrophy

Etymology: L, adaptatio, process of adapting; Gk, hyper, excessive, trophe, nourishment

a reactive increase in the amount of tissue that compensates for a loss of the same or similar tissue so that function is not impaired.

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