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An increase in the size of a tissue or organ due to increased number of cells.
Examples of hyperplasia in a Sentence
Conn's syndrome is also very rare, caused by a benign adenoma or hyperplasia of the zona glomerulosa producing excess aldosterone.
In addition, studies have revealed that red clover isoflavones can also help combat benign prostatic hyperplasia enlargement of the prostate gland.
The bark from this tree is a valuable remedy against a prostate disorder, called benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Their irritating activity has caused severe hyperplasia (abnormal cell growth ).
Hysterectomy was performed and the histopathology showed residual hyperplasia only the tissue that had become malignant had been removed by the curettage.
Comment This type of information is invaluable in informing men of their options if they have benign prostatic hyperplasia and moderate to severe symptoms.
There is no good evidence of effectiveness and no evidence of long-term safety for any herbal preparation used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia.
In the thyroid, 1,3 DCP induced thyroid follicular cell hyperplasia in dose-related manner in both male and female rats.
Comment Men with more severe symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia had poorer health status.
Chondroitin can result in problems ranging from painful benign prostate hyperplasia to deadly prostate cancer.
A remaining 5mm focus of focal nodular hyperplasia was not detected by either observer on any technique.
Importantly, oral contraceptives reduce the risk of endometrial hyperplasia.
The loss of control of treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia during adolescence is well known.
Focal or generalized gingival hyperplasia can occur, due to a chronic inflammatory response to plaque.
Part 1 - What are the causes of prostate hyperplasia?
Although the significance for man cannot be discounted the NOEL for interstitial cell hyperplasia can be used in the risk assessment.
There was a clear dose related increase in parathyroid gland hyperplasia from the lowest dose 400 ppm.
Studies in humans have demonstrated that carbocisteine reduces goblet cell hyperplasia.
What are the surgical implications The histology shows villous atrophy with crypt hyperplasia.
The Sixth Edition includes recent advances in laparoscopy, female urology, and treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and other prostate diseases.
Tonsil asymmetry may only be apparent in patients with an otherwise normal physical examination, secondary to benign hyperplasia or anatomical factors.
Intersex states may also be caused by a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia, which occurs in about one out of every 5,000 newborns.
Babies born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia can be treated with cortisone-type drugs and sometimes surgery.
In the first stage, four to 20 weeks gestation, rapid cell division and multiplication (hyperplasia) occurs as the embryo grows into a fetus.
This condition, called lymphoid hyperplasia, may also be associated with a variety of inflammatory and infectious diseases, such as Crohn's disease, gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, mononucleosis, and measles.
Adenoid hyperplasia is an enlargement of the lymph glands located above the back of the mouth.
The true incidence of adenoid hyperplasia is difficult to assess.
All MEN types are the result of inherited genetic mutations that predispose the individual to excessive growth of cells (hyperplasia) and tumor formation in multiple endocrine glands.
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency in the hormones cortisol and aldosterone and an over-production of the hormone androgen.
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a form of adrenal insufficiency in which 21-hydroxylase, the enzyme that produces two important adrenal steroid hormones, cortisol and aldosterone, is deficient.
When 21-hydroxylase is deficient, this leads to a hyperfunction and increased size (hyperplasia) of the adrenals.
The study, Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children concludes, "We have identified a chronic enterocolitis in children that may be related to neuropsychiatric dysfunction.
The term hypertrophy is used when the individual tissue elements become bigger to meet the demands of greater functional activity; hyperplasia, if there is an increase in the number of these elements; and pseudo-hypertrophy, when the specific tissue element is largely replaced by another tissue.
Should there be much loss of tissue of an organ, the cells of the remaining part will enlarge and undergo an active proliferation (hyperplasia) so that it may be made up to the original amount.