gigantism

human disease which causes the body to grow abnormally large
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gigantism

Summary

gigantism is a health problem[1]. gigantism ranks in the top 2% of health_problem entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,275 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • gigantism's instance of is recorded as health problem[3].
  • gigantism's instance of is recorded as class of disease[4].
  • gigantism is a type of tall stature[5].
  • gigantism is a type of growth hormone-producing pituitary gland neoplasm[6].
  • gigantism's Commons category is recorded as Gigantism[7].
  • gigantism's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as T99[8].
  • gigantism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:People with gigantism[9].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[14].
  • gigantism's described by source is recorded as The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[15].
  • gigantism's different from is recorded as deep-sea gigantism[16].
  • gigantism's different from is recorded as giantness[17].
  • gigantism's health specialty is recorded as endocrinology[18].
  • gigantism's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:2446[19].
  • gigantism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[20].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include health problem[3] and class of disease[4]. Recorded subclass of include tall stature[5] and growth hormone-producing pituitary gland neoplasm[6].

Why It Matters

gigantism ranks in the top 2% of health_problem entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20,275 views/month).[2] gigantism has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] gigantism is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Identifiers.org. ebi.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 46
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||bn, cs */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 11d ago · فيصل · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890) +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q113466993]]"
  3. 13w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → tall stature, growth hormone-producing pituitary gland neoplasm
    Health specialty → endocrinology
    Subclass of → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
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