Acromegaly: Growth and metabolic disorder in which the skeletal extremities enlarge when a pituitary gland tumor causes overproduction of growth hormone after maturity.

• 肢端肥大症: 一种生长及代谢障碍的疾病,特征为骨端增大,病因为成年后脑下垂体患肿瘤使得生长激素分泌过多。