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English
Etymology
From hypertroph(y) + -ous.
Adjective
hypertrophous (comparative more hypertrophous, superlative most hypertrophous)
- (dated, medicine) Hypertrophic.
1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 180:The left ventricle is dilated, its parietes hypertrophous, and seven or eight lines in thickness towards the base.