•hypertrophy (increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells) · overnourishment, overnutrition, hyperalimentation (excessive intake of nutrients) · overdevelopment
Learned borrowing from French hypertrophie, a French-coined term adopted into Greek, equivalent to υπερ- (yper-, “over, hyper-”) + τροφ(ή) (trof(í), “food, nourishment”) + -ία (-ía). First attested 1856.