(v. t.) To load with too great weight or too much care, etc.
(n.) The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
Example Sentences:
(1) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
(2) Routine surgical exploration or arteriography can be very expensive and time-consuming and can overburden available resources if used in all patients.
(3) The problem is the conflict between information and disinformation – particularly, in preventing overburdening web interfaces and search results with augmented content.
(4) A combination of HPV testing and repeated cytologic screening would provide reasonably sensitive screening for cervical neoplasia while limiting the use of colposcopic services, which are currently overburdened.
(5) Many junior faculty are overburdened with clinical demands and do not have a well-focused research agenda.
(6) What may seem like minor tweaks to make something more palatable to overburdened policymakers could actually have lasting implications, creating winners and losers on the global stage – we need to learn from the MDGs, scale up our ambitions and face inequity head-on.
(7) There was, for instance, a symbolically overburdened childhood moment, recalled by Christopher at Hay, in which he was sitting in the garden admiring stuff when he saw a shadow looming, a shadow that he claims was that of Peter wielding a rake.
(8) The author realizes that there is little motivation for frequently overburdened faculties and underfunded medical schools to undertake the needed changes; he describes various problems that challenge the existence of the health care system, including the increasing (and well-meaning) involvement in educational matters by legislators and bureaucrats.
(9) Such overburdening is implicated in caregiver burnout.
(10) The service system is overburdened and poorly coordinated.
(11) The telephone log method may provide a useful way of generating enough observations for single subject analyses without overburdening the patient with repeated testing.
(12) The cause of this change is most probably the reversibly impaired contractility of the heart muscle after fatigue of the left ventricle as a result of a certain degree of overburdening.
(13) I'm sure the nation's social workers, currently struggling as they are with overburdened case loads involving a variety of troubled, vulnerable individuals with a range of complex needs are slapping their heads as we speak.
(14) The general situation of pediatric care in Asturias is characterized by the imbalance between the two levels of care, with a high number of hospital beds and staff members, requiring a redistribution in number and functions, and a deficit in staff and material resources at the primary care level, with massified practices and overburdened care activities.
(15) In a small room off the tunnel at Wycombe’s ground, as a tea urn belched steam into the freezing January air, he bemoaned, in his characteristically sulky way, a recruitment policy that had left him overburdened with attacking players but bereft of defensive cover.
(16) To prevent overburdening of existing in center programs, expansion of training facilities statewide for home care dialysis is suggested.
(17) It is questioned whether the health care system can adequately respond to the health requirements of the many when resources are drained, health care providers are overburdened, and primary health care is fragmented because of AIDS.
(18) It has sometimes felt as though social workers are dodgy salesmen – or, more often, overburdened saleswomen – stressing the positives and skimming over the challenging, if entirely excusable, character traits of children they are trying to house.
(19) The data can be interpreted as demonstrating that the nursing staff is overburdened with administrative work.
(20) Cooperation of orthopaedists and specialists in sports medicine is the prerequisite of restricting possible negative sequelae of local and general overburdening.
Overload
Definition:
(v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
(n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(2) In iron-overloaded patients with primary haemochromatosis, there was inappropriately high uptake of iron by the biopsy specimens.
(3) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(4) Al hepatocytes overload appeared only in nuclei and not in nuclei and not in lysosomes, contrarily to chronic intoxications.
(5) Fluid overload, which could have been caused by the hyperosmolar properties of dextran, worsened progressively as fluids were drawn from the interstitial space and urine output was reduced.
(6) There were no significant differences between the mean levels of peak blood pressures (systolic, diastolic and mean), degree of fluid overload, and fractional sodium excretion in the 2 groups.
(7) Persisting diastolic dysfunction with a substantial rise in left ventricular filling pressure can be observed during dynamic exercise in postoperative patients with preoperative severe pressure overload hypertrophy.
(8) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
(9) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
(10) There was no change in the sarcolemmal Mg2+ -ATPase of the left or right ventricle for the whole duration (3 to 9 months) of left ventricular pressure overload.
(11) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
(12) When a high dose of the complex was administered, an overloading with hemosiderin of macrophages and hepatocytes was noticed.
(13) The subsequent accumulation of Na+ in the cell Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange, which can ultimately result in intracellular Ca2+ overload, contractile dysfunction and damage.
(14) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
(15) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
(16) Cardiac hypertrophy due to a chronic hemodynamic overload is accompanied by isoformic changes of two proteins of the thick filament of the sarcomere, myosin, and creatine phosphokinase.
(17) Age, gender and laboratory markers of iron overload did not differentiate patients with cardiac dysfunction (group 1) from those without cardiac dysfunction (group 2).
(18) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
(19) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
(20) To help resolve the issue of contractile function in volume overload hypertrophy, we examined ventricular function in a recently described model of severe chronic experimental mitral regurgitation.