Word Meanings - HYPERTROPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• OPPOSITE
  1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• CONDITIONATE
  1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. 2. To put under conditions; to render conditional.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• ATROPHY
  A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series