Word: hyperplasia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most of his 1952 freshmen "would have flunked dismally in competition with our freshmen of today-except, of course, if the freshman of ten years ago could have gone...
...prostate has undergone some enlargement. Why this is, medical science has no clear idea. Researchers are not even agreed as to the nature of the enlargement. They used to call it hypertrophy, meaning that they thought the cells within the gland were enlarged. Now they usually call it hyperplasia, meaning an increase in the number of normal-size cells...
...hormone balance is shown by the fact that many prostate cancer patients apparently live longer if they are castrated. And female sex hormones are sometimes used instead of surgical castration. But this still does not prove that the hormone changes of advancing years cause either the hyperplasia or the cancer...