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Categories: Human height, Growth disorders, All articles lacking reliable references, Neuroendocrinology, Growth hormones

giantism gigantism overgrowth anterior pituitary hyperfunction hypophyseal gigantism

Excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland WordNet 3.0

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Excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Gigantism, also known as giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average. Wikipedia

A condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average Wikipedia Disambiguation

Human disease which causes the body to grow abnormally large Wikidata

A condition where there is over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland in a child before the bone growth plates close, resulting in excessive long bone growth, accompanied by muscular weakness and sexual impotence. Wiktionary

Condition. Wiktionary (translation)

An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes. Wiktionary

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

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deep-sea gigantism

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endocrinology

WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

giantism, gigantism, overgrowth

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gigantism

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gigantism

Wiktionary

gigantism, overgrowth

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Constitutional tall stature, giantism, Giantitis, pituitary gigantism, Seven foot

Wikidata Alias

anterior pituitary hyperfunction, Anterior pituitary hyperfunction, giantism, hypophyseal gigantism, Hypophyseal gigantism, infantile and juvenile forms of acromegaly, Infantile and juvenile forms of acromegaly, pituitary gigantism, Pituitary gigantism