gigantism

基本解釋

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.
在生長發(fā)育期的兒童，過多的生長激素可導(dǎo)致稱為巨人癥的疾病，表現(xiàn)為身材異常高大，同時伴有過度骨生長。
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.
開展這項研究是為了進一步掌握高氧環(huán)境（類似地球在古生代晚期的環(huán)境）對動物體型巨大產(chǎn)生的影響。
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.
迄今為止，還沒出現(xiàn)任何與克隆有關(guān)的食品安全問題。然而，有證據(jù)顯示克隆中會出現(xiàn)流產(chǎn)，畸形胎和巨人癥等現(xiàn)象，因此克隆技術(shù)引發(fā)了嚴(yán)肅的道德及福利問題。

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

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