Hypertrophic \Hy`per*troph"ic\, Hypertrophical \Hy`per*troph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. hypertrophique.] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.
This includes the armed forces, the political police, party functionaries and a hypertrophic bureaucracy that consists of 50 functionaries with the rank of minister, 200 vice ministers and a foreign service as large as that of a country as big as France.
Warlick's main focus was an area of a chromosome near a marker for a hereditary heart ailment, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.