What's the difference between excess and overabundance?
Excess
Definition:
(n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
(n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
(n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(2) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(3) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(4) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(5) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(6) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(7) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(8) Preliminary studies of different systems suggest several of them may have sensitivity to detect intraepithelial abnormalities in excess of 95%.
(9) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
(10) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
(12) Addition of methacholine to the substance-P-treated cells caused a rapid increase in [3H]IP3, whereas a second addition of a 10-fold excess of substance P had no effect.
(13) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
(14) Using the intersection point of these pH-logPCO2 lines as a point of equal hemoglobin-independent "base excess" for each condition, values for true base excess were plotted.
(15) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
(16) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(17) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
(18) The technique did not compromise cancer resection, excessively prolong operating time, or alter postoperative management.
(19) The temperature-activated 4 to 5 S EBP transformation is found to be highly reproducible without loss of [3H]estradiol-binding activity in a buffer containing an excess of [3H]estradiol, 40 mM Tris, 1 mM dithiothreitol, and 1 M urea at pH 7.4.
(20) The amount of cleavage products depends on the excess of H2O2 used.
Overabundance
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The literature does not have an overabundance of data but does contain evidence of definite but weak drug efficacy in the treatment of this condition.
(2) On the other hand, the augmented BMD of the lumbar spine might reflect the overabundance of partially mineralized osteoid.
(3) Morphological and immunohistochemical analyses showed that these tumors caricature the biology of the renewing epidermis: the presence of basal-like cells; differentiating cells; apoptotic cells; and keratinized horn pearls with an exaggerated or overabundant stem cell compartment as compared to the differentiated cell compartment.
(4) Analysis of a 1989-base-long gene sequence for mouse immunoglobulin gamma 2a heavy-chain constant region as well as the 19,002-base-long gene sequence for human serum albumin revealed deficiency and overabundance of very similar sets of base trimers and tetramers in the coding and noncoding regions of the same gene, in spite of the fact that noncoding regions were considerably richer in A + T. Inasmuch as this universal rule does not discriminate one strand of DNA double helix from another, two complementary DNA strands of the entire gene maintained nearly perfect symmetry.
(5) There was a relative paucity of L3T4+ cells and an overabundance of Lyt2+ cells compared with the frequency of these cells found in lymphatic tissues or peripheral blood.
(6) Disadvantages include risk of facial burns and overabundant removal of tissue with cartilage exposure.
(7) It is generally thought that most circuits of the adult central nervous system (CNS) are sculpted, in part at least, by selective elimination of some of the neurons present in an initial overabundant set.
(8) We propose that the impending no-reflow state may reflect a state of global microcirculatory "agonal" vasoconstriction, most probably due to an overabundant release of the vasoconstrictor thromboxane relative to the vasodilating prostaglandin E2 and prostacyclin.
(9) The reaction products produced under prolonged incubation suggested that monoacylglycerol was not hydrolyzed since an overabundance of monoacylglycerol was found with respect to the amount of fatty acid produced.
(10) This suggests that the presence of great amounts of chondroitin-4-sulfate in hypertrophic scars may contribute to the overabundance of collagen deposition which is characteristic of this abnormal healing process.
(11) In the French population the protein ration is high and contains an overabundance of animal proteins associated with a high degree of saturated animal fats.
(12) The condition is reminiscent of the 'luxury perfusion syndrome' (overabundant cerebral flow relative to metabolic needs of cerebral tissue).
(13) An overabundance of duplicate journals without an efficient and economical method of distribution caused one library's staff to reassess traditional methods of dispersal.
(14) It’s a very Russian thing to be incredibly cerebral, and simultaneously have this overabundance of feeling.
(15) Since morbidly obese women have an overabundance of nutrients for fetal transfer, we examined the effects of weight gain on fetal outcome in women greater than 160% of ideal body weight.
(16) Some readers suggested piping water from states where there is an “overabundance”.
(17) The findings are compatible with an overabundant glutamatergic innervation of orbital frontal cortex in schizophrenia.
(18) Other changes have included overabundance of the membranous systems of the platelet.
(19) In continuation we hypothesized that these phenomena are possibly the result of diminished population of opioid receptors, or an overabundance of dynorphin interfering with morphine analgesia.
(20) In the past few decades, the fortunate among us have recognised the hazards of living with an overabundance of food (obesity, diabetes) and have started to change our diets.