(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
Overact
Definition:
(v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
(v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.
(v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in 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.