Disease or Syndrome
ventricular hypertrophy
Definitions related to ventricular hypertrophy:
  • Enlargement of the cardiac ventricular muscle tissue with increase in the width of the wall of the ventricle and loss of elasticity. Ventricular hypertrophy is clinically differentiated into left and right ventricular hypertrophy.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
  • General increase in bulk of the myocardium not due to tumor formation, nor to an increase in the number of cells, but due to chronic pressure overload; enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart is often attributed to pulmonary hypertension; enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart is attributed to sustained abnormal pressure or volume loads.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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