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  • Hypervigilance

    Excessive attentiveness to stimuli. Hypervigilance refers to an altered state of exceptionally heightened vigilance and alertness observed in individuals who have endured trauma or prolonged abuse. It is often depicted as a perpetual sense of being on high alert, maintaining a constant state of red alert. This condition manifests as an abnormal and intensified state…

  • Therapeutic hyperventilation

    The use of carefully controlled but exaggerated ventilation to lower carbon dioxide levels in the blood and reduce cerebral blood flow; used to treat cerebral edema (e.g., after head injury). Its use remains controversial despite decades of research. Typically, the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (C02) is lowered to about 28 to 32 mm Hg.…

  • Hypervalinemia

    An inherited condition caused by a deficiency of the enzymes essential to the metabolism of valine. The condition is marked by mental retardation, nystagmus, vomiting, and failure to thrive.  

  • Vicarious hypertrophy

    Hypertrophy of an organ when another organ of allied function is disabled or destroyed,  

  • True hypertrophy

    Hypertrophy caused by an increase in the size of all the different tissues composing a part. An enlargement of all the tissues in an organ or muscle, commonly due to overuse. For example, the muscles of weight lifters expand from consistently lifting heavy weights.  

  • Simple hypertrophy

    Hypertrophy due to an increase in the size of structural parts. A rise in the cell count of an organ.  

  • Pseudomuscular hypertrophy

    A disease, usually of childhood, characterized by paralysis, depending on degeneration of the muscles, which paradoxically become enlarged from a deposition of fat and connective tissue.  

  • Physiological hypertrophy

    Hypertrophy due to natural rather than pathological factors.  

  • Numerical hypertrophy

    Hypertrophy caused by an increase in structural elements.  

  • Gingival hypertrophy

    Excessive growth of the gums, sometimes associated with prolonged treatment with medications such as cyclosporine, nifedipine, or phenytoin. Thorough professional cleaning of the teeth, and/or electrosurgical, laser, or conventional surgical treatments can remove the excess tissue.  

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