hyper-, hyp-

1. The overproduction of thyroid hormones at dangerously high levels.
2. The condition in which basal metabolism increases as a result of over activity of the thyroid gland.

It affects women far more frequently than men, with peak incidence between 30 and 50 years of age.

1. Increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
2. The condition (in muscle or muscular tissue) of being hypertonic.
3. A condition of excessive tone of the skeletal muscles; increased resistance of muscle to passive stretching.

1. Having an extreme muscular or arterial tension; spastic.
2. Having a higher osmotic pressure of two solutions.

Excessive or extreme toxicity or an abnormal degree to which something is poisonous.

A person who treats unsightly facial hair: Dr. Long was a hypertrichologist who was able to treat the unattractive spot of hair on Leah's face.

An abnormal dislike of excessive hair on the body: Joe, suffering from hypertrichophobia, was oversensitive about the growth of whiskers on his face and the growth of such threadlike structures on his chest and back, so he shaved twice a day and had the other growths removed regularly!

An excessive growth of the eyebrows or having excessively hairy eyebrows: Mr. Black's eyebrows were quite dark and profuse, and at the dermatologist's hea was told that he had hypertrichophrydia that even grew together above his nose and could have been inherited.

1. Generalizes excessive growth of hair where hair normally grows: Hypertrichosis universalis is a rare skin disorder of superfluous presence of hair over the whole body except for the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and mucus membranes.
2. Excessive growth of the hair; also called polytrichia and polytrichosis..

Here is a special article about the X-ray treatment of hypertrichosis.

A medical condition referring to excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin: Hypertricosis can be present in the face and neck and is also called "werewolf syndrome" or "human-werewolf syndrome".

Hypertrichiasis can refer to the growth of hair in any pattern which is excessive for the age, sex, and the race of the subject or person.

An enlargement, increased development: Judy learned that an hypertroph referred to a part of an organism that grew immoderately because of an unusual increase of cells.

The condition of an abnormal enlargement of an organ or body part: Hypertrophy can occur because of an increase in cell size rather than cell numbers.

Hypertrophy is normally the situation of an increase in bulk of a part or organ, not due to tumor formation.

Use of the term may be restricted to denote greater bulk through increase in size, but not in number, of the individual tissue element, such as the enlargement of muscles as a result of exercise.

Abnormally vascular; containing an excessive number of blood vessels.

To breathe unusually deeply or rapidly because of anxiety or of an organic disease and in excess of the body's requirements, causing too much loss of carbon dioxide: Janet started to hyperventilate because she was suddenly under stress.