Definition

1. Verb:

   • To hypertrophy: To undergo an abnormal enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or tissue due to an increase in the size of its cells. This is the primary medical meaning.
   • To exaggerate / To magnify: To represent something as being larger, greater, or more important than it actually is. This is a figurative, non-medical usage.

2. Adjective:

   • Hypertrophied: Describing an organ or tissue that has undergone abnormal enlargement.
   • Exaggerated / Inflated: Describing something that has been represented in an overstated or amplified manner.

Usage Examples

• Verb (Medical):
  • Cơ tim có thể phì đại do huyết áp cao. (The heart muscle can hypertrophy due to high blood pressure.)
• Verb (Figurative):
  • Đừng phì đại tầm quan trọng của sự việc. (Don't exaggerate the importance of the matter.)
• Adjective:
  • Bệnh nhân có tuyến tiền liệt phì đại. (The patient has a hypertrophied prostate gland.)
  • Đó là một con số phì đại, không phản ánh sự thật. (That is an inflated figure, not reflecting the truth.)

Advanced Usage

• "phì đại cơ": muscle hypertrophy.
  • Các vận động viên tập luyện để đạt được phì đại cơ. (Athletes train to achieve muscle hypertrophy.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sự phì đại (n): Hypertrophy; the process or result of becoming hypertrophied.
  • Sự phì đại thất trái là một dấu hiệu lâm sàng quan trọng. (Left ventricular hypertrophy is an important clinical sign.)

Synonyms

• Hypertrophy: (Medical) Abnormal enlargement.
• Exaggerate: To overstate.
• Magnify: To make seem larger.
• Overstate: To describe something in excessive terms.

Related Idioms

• Phì đại hóa vấn đề: To blow an issue out of proportion.
  • Báo chí đôi khi có xu hướng phì đại hóa vấn đề. (The press sometimes tends to blow issues out of proportion.)