Medicine. Excessive accumulation of fat; corpulence; obesity.

The formation of flesh or sarcose tissue. Obsolete.

Medicine. A normal or abnormal proliferation of tissue; a growth or outgrowth of tissue. Obsolete.

Physiology and Pathology. Enlargement of a part or organ of an animal or plant, produced by excessive nutrition; excessive growth or development…

The formation of a tissue different from the normal tissue of the part in which it occurs.

The development or presence of a neoplasm; the process by which a neoplasm, or a specific type of neoplasm, arises. Also: an instance of this; a…

A form of hypertrophy consisting in abnormal multiplication of the cellular elements of a part or organ; excessive cell-formation.

Enlargement of an organ or body part, esp. a muscle, caused not by hypertrophy of its functional tissue but by an increase in adipose or fibrous…

unilateral or partial hypertrophy.

= multiple myeloma, n.

an excess of cells at a site in the body.

The presence of an abnormally high number of white blood cells (usually lymphocytes) in the cerebrospinal fluid; an instance of this.

Originally: abnormal proliferation of white blood cell (granulocyte) precursors; an instance of this. Later also (chiefly with distinguishing word)…

malignant proliferation of lymphoblasts.

Benign or malignant proliferation of histiocytes; any disorder characterized by this.

= plasmacytosis, n.

Proliferation of reticuloendothelial cells; a type or instance of this. Cf. reticulosis, n.

Proliferation (benign or malignant) of reticular, reticuloendothelial, or lymphoreticular cells; disease characterized by this; an instance of this.

A chronic disease characterized by the widespread appearance of sarcoid granulomata derived from the reticuloendothelial system.

= retinopathy of prematurity n. at retinopathy, n. phrases.

the formation of connective tissue, esp. to an excessive degree or imperfectly; fibrogenesis imperfecta ossium, a rare disease in which fibres of…

= main sense.