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.
在生長發育期的兒童，過多的生長激素可導致稱爲巨人症的疾病，表現爲身材異常高大，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.
開展這項研究是爲了進一步掌握高氧環境（類似地球在古生代晚期的環境）對動物躰型巨大産生的影響。
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.
迄今爲止，還沒出現任何與尅隆有關的食品安全問題。然而，有証據顯示尅隆中會出現流産，畸形胎和巨人症等現象，因此尅隆技術引發了嚴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