Category: H

  • Hyperorchidism

    Abnormally active testes. Excessive secretion of male hormones, often accompanied by precocious puberty.  

  • Hyperope

    Person with farsightedness.  

  • Hyperonychia

    Enlargement of the nails.  

  • Hypernoia

    Excessive mental activity.  

  • Hypermetria

    Excessive range of motion. An unusual range of movement; motor incoordination in which muscular movement causes a person to overreach the objective.  

  • Hypermetabolism

    Increased metabolism, the physical and chemical processes by which the body uses substances. Above normal metabolic rate. An increased rate of metabolism (e.g., as in fever, salicylate overdose, and other physiological or toxic stresses).  

  • Hypermastia

    Excessively large or more than two breasts. Excessive enlargement of the breast in women or men. This condition may be unilateral.  

  • Hyperlactation

    Excessive secretion of milk.  

  • Hyperkoria

    Early sense of satiety.  

  • Hyperinvolution

    Reduction of womb to below-normal size after childbirth. Excessive shrinkage of the womb and associated structures after childbirth. The condition may become extreme if breast-feeding continues for a very long time or if the reproductive tract becomes seriously infected shortly after delivery. Reduction in the size of the uterus to below normal after childbirth. The…