The GCC countries new spending packages are likely to perpetuate public sector hypertrophy.

By contrast, hypertrophy is what occurs, for example, to skeletal muscle cells during weight training and steroid use and is simply an increase in the size of the cells.

On the other hand, rather than atrophying, the amygdala, the seat of emotional memories, becomes hyperactive both in post traumatic stress disorder and depressive illness, and there is evidence from animal studies of a hypertrophy of nerve cells after repeated stress.