ACROMEGALY as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face
   • often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances
   • caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor)
   Synonym(s)
   • acromegalia (what does acromegalia mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) acromegaly is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • hypertrophy (what does hypertrophy mean?)