hyperpituitarism

1. 1.

   excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone)

   Broaderglandular disease

   Part ofacromegalygiantism

Other forms of hyperpituitarism

plural

hyperpituitarisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hyperpituitarism

What does hyperpituitarism mean?

hyperpituitarism means "excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone)".

How many syllables are in hyperpituitarism?

hyperpituitarism has 7 syllables: hy-per-pi-tu-i-ta-rism. The stress falls on "i".

Is hyperpituitarism a common word?

hyperpituitarism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.