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  1. Rare condition in which enlargement of
  2. prominent parts of the body, for example
  3. hands, feet, heart, and, conspicuously, the
  4. eyebrow ridges and lower jaw, is caused by
  5. excessive output of growth hormone in adult
  6. life by a nonmalignant tumour of the
  7. pituitary gland.
  8.  
  9. Subject by: Russell Webb
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