What's the difference between overabundance and overmuch?
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.
Overmuch
Definition:
(a.) Too much.
(adv.) In too great a degree; too much.
(n.) An excess; a surplus.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mid-20th century, the customary political apathy of youth did not matter overmuch.
(2) Perhaps some readers don't weep overmuch when newspapers have to pay up, but the price of defeat in this sort of baroque legal game is constant for both sides.
(3) Therefore his work is somehow tainted, so not worth overmuch reaction, sitting somewhere beyond the pale.
(4) Even if his notices were sometimes prosaic, dwelt overmuch on retailing plots and showed more interest in a production's literary, rather than acting, values, Shulman wrote with clarity, good sense and to the point.
(5) If, as was said, too many of us ached, longed, strove to be be be be White White White White WHITE … If (as was said) many of us boasted overmuch of the blood des blancs that for centuries had found blatant or surreptitious ways to flow, course, and trickle tepidly through our veins and arteries (cephalic, aortal, renal, femoral, jugular, subclavian, and superior mesenteric)… If we placed too high a value on the looks, manners, and morals called the birthright of the Anglo-Saxon… White people wanted to be white just as much as we did.
(6) And the web-based march of British journalism across the world can leave home bases scantily covered, as though those who live there don't matter overmuch.