Overgrowth

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