gigantism

基本解释

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。

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