HYPERTROPHY

Hypertrophy

One of the two most common and visible forms of organ hypertrophy occurs in head muscles in response to strength training . Depending on the type of training, the hypertrophy can occur through increased sarcoplasmic volume or increased contractile proteins.

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hypertrophy

Noun

  1. An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells
  2. Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.

Verb

  1. : To increase in size


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