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Noun:

  • A condition where there is over-production of growth hormone by the pituitary gland in a child before the bone growth plates close, resulting in excessive long bone growth, accompanied by muscular weakness and sexual impotence.
  • The quality or state of being gigantic; being of abnormally large size.

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