What's the difference between erethism and overexcitement?
Erethism
Definition:
(n.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
Example Sentences:
(1) 6) Mental changes: as acute psychosis in organic lead and erethism in organic mercury.
(2) It is evident that the treatment of a condition of hypermotility and erethism demand a long-term, individually-suited pharmacotherapy.
(3) Satisfactory results were observed in 58.3% of cases, with significant improvement of cardiac erethism, psychomotor instability and sleep disturbances, as well as cardiac frequency and signs of myocardial insufficiency.
(4) The main signs consisted of mental and neurological changes such as erethism, tremor and mercurial psellism.
(5) Urodynamic results were highly discordant in the presence of clinical 'erethism', whilst agreement was more marked in the case of stress incontinence.
(6) Different authors suppose different localisation of alterations causing erethism.
(7) Results, as assessed by the response of anxiety, tension, erethism and insomnia, showed that only 4 (5%) patients failed to obtain some relief.
(8) Both miners exposed to high temperature and excess heat and miners working under permissible temperature conditions (a control group) had similar nonspecific signs, i. e., complaints of heartache and headache, erethism, flaccidity, hydrosis, degradation of appetite and sleep, vertigo, dimness, the sense of air shortage, palpitation in rest, uncertain gait, muscle spasm.
Overexcitement
Definition:
(n.) Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
Example Sentences:
(1) We hypothesize that hypofunction of this inhibitory neuron causes overexcitation in the main excitatory pathway which could play a role in epilepsy.
(2) Overexcitation of excitatory projections is believed responsible for the distant damage and evidence is presented that in some instances the projections involved are cholinergic.
(3) The most important thing of all is for an individual clinician to become familiar with the most significant of these drugs and not to indulge in polypharmacy, because all antiarrhythmic drugs can lead to either depression or overexcitation of the myocardium.
(4) Summoned back to parliament, Hammond played down the importance of the change, calling it tactical rather than strategic and blamed "overexcited" reporting of the announcement .
(5) Electrocardiographic changes were found in all cases, such as sinus tachycardia (12 times), impaired electrical conduction (5 times), ventricular overexcitability (7 times), high P-wave (6 times), changes of the ST (10 times), and of the T-wave (18 times).
(6) The mechanism of beta-mimetic toxicity appears to be increased myocardial intracellular calcium leading to overexcitation and cell necrosis.
(7) British ministers have acted like overexcited cheerleaders for Bahrain’s woefully inadequate human rights reforms, Amnesty International has said, ahead of an expected visit next month by Theresa May on the sidelines of the annual Gulf Cooperation Council summit.
(8) • If you get overexcited by an idea, take a break and come back to it later.
(9) Their behaviour, everything from involuntary noises to overexcitement, can become disruptive for other theatregoers.
(10) Mishaps most frequently occurred because of overexcitement, unfamiliarity with equipment, or carelessness.
(11) It was found that contacts transferring the influences of the reinforcing network at learning by the Hebb principle, must either initially exert a subthreshold action or be "unlearning" for the elimination of the process of overexcitation.
(12) Our findings do not lend support to the hypothesis that the sporadic form of ALS results from overexcitation of motor neurons by excitatory amino acids.
(13) Or imagine that you are a Louise Mensch type: an equally overexcited English rightwinger, who for years has also been ignored as you cried that Labour hated Britain and loved Britain’s enemies.
(14) Most employers did not make a fuss of the women disappearing but rather tried to prepare for the influx of overexcited youngsters who would have to accompany their fathers to work.
(15) To be honest, I was overexcited and overjoyed with everything,” he said.
(16) Many of their problems, both parties apparently concede, came from overexcited lawyers.
(17) The sky was black, the winds freezing but the mood was nigh-on ecstatic as they wound around Citi Field, better known as the home of the Mets, although today it was the base for a set of fans even more overexcited than baseball followers: reinvigorated political optimists.
(18) Older members say Iain Duncan Smith is "sanguine", "not overexcited" and "not one to go overboard" - all traits that appeal.
(19) Physiological and biochemical studies of the thalamic response to cortical ablation indicate that pathological overexcitation might contribute to the degenerative process.
(20) The results, compared with age matched controls, showed in the diabetic patients a supersensitivity of the two antagonist systems, increasing with age and duration of the disease, up to an overexcitability and a functional exhaustion.