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Categories: Articles with short description, Neuroendocrinology, Growth disorders, Human height, Growth hormones
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giantism  gigantism  overgrowth  anterior pituitary hyperfunction  hypophyseal gigantism
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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
An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes. Wiktionary