What's the difference between overabundance and surfeit?
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.
Surfeit
Definition:
(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm reminded of something Cooper said earlier, when talking about the pressures of this time of year for working parents, with its surfeit of plays and, "Oh God, not another school fair".
(2) This very tight clustering suggests a cis interaction between adjacent Surfeit genes.
(3) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
(4) The organization of the mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains six housekeeping genes (Surf-1-Surf-6), which are unrelated by sequence homology, in the tightest mammalian gene cluster thus far described.
(5) When the faculty status of women and men academic anesthesiologists was examined a significant difference was found in rank distribution in age groups 40 to 44 (P less than 0.005) and 45 to 49 (P less than 0.001), where there was a deficit of professors and a surfeit of instructors among women.
(6) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
(7) We found no evidence of an initial surfeit of processing units, dendritic branches, or synapses.
(8) In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels.
(9) Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition.
(10) Using an interspecies backcross, we have mapped the HOX-5 and surfeit (surf) gene clusters within the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 2.
(11) In the adult, sodium surfeit is associated with an increase in urinary dopamine; the opposite occurs in the young.
(12) But we've had a surfeit of "behind the scenes" pictures of both coalition leaders; too many pictures of Cameron gurning at his new baby have led to this sort of material becoming a devalued currency.
(13) Responses to the energy surfeit led to intakes 104% and 116% of baseline, respectively.
(14) Since a repository would be expected to accumulate surplus material, one would predict that phosphorylase, which contains stoichio-metric amounts or pyridoxal phosphate, would increase in muscle of animals surfeited with the vitamin.
(15) What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
(16) These data support the hypothesis that a surfeit of opioidergic ligand may potentiate drinking of alcoholic beverages.
(17) The concept of a basal level of body sodium (Strauss' state 'between surfeit and deficit') was studied by means of body sodium measurements in rats on different sodium intakes, in some cases after diuretic pretreatment.
(18) The invading fibers appear to encounter resistance at the basal lamina, but, once within the epithelium, at embryonic days 8-9, they form a surfeit of branches in columnar zones oriented radially toward the surface.
(19) Relative to their energy consumption on the medium-fat diet, the subjects spontaneously consumed an 11.3% deficit on the low-fat diet and a 15.4% surfeit on the high-fat diet (p less than 0.0001), resulting in significant changes in body weight (p less than 0.001).
(20) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.