Proliferation vs Hypertrophy - What's the difference?
proliferation | hypertrophy |
(uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
(countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
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, title= (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
(uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
(countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells
(uncountable, bodybuilding) 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.
(of a tissue or organ): To increase in size
As nouns the difference between proliferation and hypertrophy
is that proliferation is proliferation, spreading while hypertrophy is (countable|medicine) an increase in the size of an organ due to swelling of the individual cells.As a verb hypertrophy is
(of a tissue or organ): to increase in size.proliferation
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Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools