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Overgrowth may refer to:

Botany and environment

• Shrub and weed growth
• Aufwuchs (German "surface growth" or "overgrowth") is the collection of small animals and plants that adhere to open surfaces

Medicine and biology

• Hyperplasia
  • Inflammatory papillary hyperplasia, overgrowth of soft tissue, usually beneath a denture
• Overgrowth syndrome a group of genetic disorders in which there is an abnormal increase in the size of the body or a body part
• Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
• Gingival overgrowth
• Pityrosporum folliculitis part of the normal skin flora, which overgrows in certain conditions
• Neural fibrolipoma overgrowth of fibro-fatty tissue along a nerve trunk that often leads to nerve compression
• Perlman syndrome a rare overgrowth disorder present at birth
• Achlorhydria complications of bacterial overgrowth and intestinal metaplasia and symptoms are often consistent with those
• Retinopathy most often resulting from neovascularization or blood vessel overgrowth
• Congenital hypertrophy of the lateral fold of the hallux condition involves "an overgrowth of the soft tissue" that can partially cover the nail plate
• Leontiasis ossea Lion Face Syndrome, is a rare medical condition, characterized by an overgrowth of the facial and cranial bones
• Hereditary gingival fibromatosis a rare condition of gingival overgrowth

Other uses

• Overgrowth (video game), by Wolfire Games

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