gigantism

基本解释

• n.巨大；巨大性；[医]巨大畸形；巨大发育

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• In children who are still growing, too much growth hormone can cause a condition called gigantism that leads to an abnormal increase in height as well as excess bone growth.
  在生长发育期的儿童，过多的生长激素可导致称为巨人症的疾病，表现为身材异常高大，同时伴有过度骨生长。
• The study was constructed to provide more insight into the effects a hyperoxic environment--like the kind our planet enjoyed in the late Paleozoic--might have had on animal gigantism.
  开展这项研究是为了进一步掌握高氧环境（类似地球在古生代晚期的环境）对动物体型巨大产生的影响。
• To date, no food safety risks have been linked to cloning. However, the technology throws up serious ethical and welfare questions, with evidence of miscarriages, deformities and gigantism.
  迄今为止，还没出现任何与克隆有关的食品安全问题。然而，有证据显示克隆中会出现流产，畸形胎和巨人症等现象，因此克隆技术引发了严肃的道德及福利问题。

权威例句

• Foes of gigantism point out that, so far, it is doing nicely without becoming Manhattan-by-the-Thames.
  ECONOMIST: Cityscapes
• Yet, alone among the armed services, the Coast Guard suffers from smallness rather than gigantism.
  ECONOMIST: The Coast Guard: Keeping all channels open The

词组短语

短语

• pituitary gigantism 垂体性巨人症
• hyperpituitary gigantism 垂体分泌过多性巨人症
• cerebral gigantism 脑性巨人症
• fetal gigantism 胎儿巨大发育
• partial gigantism 局部巨大发育

英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• excessive growth of the entire body, caused by over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland during childhood or adolescence (Also called giantism)&rarrcompare acromegaly

专业释义

医药科学

• 巨人症
• 巨大症
• 伟人症

生物学

• 巨大化
• 巨型性
• 硕大态
• 巨型性;硕大态;巨大发育
• 巨人症