What's the difference between action and overaction?
Action
Definition:
(n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
(n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
(n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
(n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
(n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
(n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
(n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
(n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
(n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
(n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
(n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
(n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
(n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(3) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(4) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(5) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) This was unlike the action of the calcium channel blocker, cadmium, which reduced the calcium action potential and the a.h.p.
(9) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(10) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(13) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(14) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(15) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(16) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(17) In oleate-labeled particles, besides phosphatidic acid the product of PLD action radioactivity was also detected in diglyceride as a result of resident phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, which hydrolyzed the phosphatidic acid.
(18) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(19) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(20) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
Overaction
Definition:
(n.) Per/ormance to excess; exaggerated or excessive action.
Example Sentences:
(1) IDDM patients with incipient and overt nephropathy have been found to exhibit an overactivity of RBC sodium-lithium countertransport.
(2) Furthermore, when levels of the ocytocinase effect on the serum was studied in 10 cases before and after transfusing the ethanol, the results showed that there was little likelihood that overactivity of ocytocinase could explain the lowering in the levels of oxytocins brought about by the use of ethanol.
(3) As well as a dramatic improvement in bone mineralisation, there was remodeling of trabecular architecture and a decrease in fibrosis in patients with initial parathyroid overactivity.
(4) Epileptic boys were significantly more inattentive and overactive than nonepileptic boys according to their teachers and parents, and they performed significantly less well on tests of sustained attention and perceptual accuracy.
(5) The VBM deficit is a failure to decode the target stimulus, and is not simply a function of abnormalities due to an overactive transient channel system.
(6) Nevertheless, the ability to secrete this hormone is not a property of normal intact pars intermedia, but it manifests in the transplantations probably due to the overactivity of light cells induced by chronic stoppage of dopaminergic inhibition.
(7) It is thought that oral contraceptives cause generalized vascular overactivity.
(8) It is implicit that overactivity or functional failure of any one or combination of the integral reflexes may cause a significant disorder of lower urinary tract function.
(9) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
(10) Based on these results, it appears that the silicone expander technique is useful in patients with superior oblique overaction and Brown syndrome secondary to tight superior oblique tendon.
(11) Children who improved and those with persistent problems were initially rated high on overactivity, concentration difficulties and disobedience.
(12) A group of patients with cardiac myxoma who have a heritable syndrome involving skin myxomas, endocrine tumors, and lentiginosis--the complex of myxomas, spotty pigmentation, and endocrine overactivity--has been described previously.
(13) Overactivity of the thyroid gland was suspected in a patient receiving up to 100 mcg dose of eltroxin who tried to lose weight according to this method.
(14) Aldosterone overactivity is crucially involved in maintaining the oedematous state as evidenced by its often complete correction by adrenalectomy, or by aldosterone antagonists, in both experimental and clinical heart failure.
(15) The chronic stage (greater than 3 months postinjury, as in this patient) is usually characterized by sympathetic overactivity.
(16) Fluid retention, inappropriate stimulation of the renin-angiotensin system, sympathetic overactivity and changes of vessel wall structure have been shown to be important factors in its pathogenesis.
(17) Despite the presence of manifestations of sympathetic overactivity or hypermetabolism, the patients did not have true hyperthyroidism, as verified by the laboratory findings and the results of antithyroid treatment.
(18) Overactivity of the sympathetic nervous system and immunologic dysfunction have been shown to contribute to development and maintenance of hypertension in the Okamoto spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR).
(19) These results indicate that cirrhotic patients with blunted renal response to atrial natriuretic peptide are characterized by low arterial pressure, marked overactivity of the renin-aldosterone system, and severe sodium and water retention.
(20) In some of these patients reduced bone density and even frank osteitis fibrosa suggest osteoclastic overactivity.