What's the difference between overcrow and overgrow?
Overcrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower.
Example Sentences:
(1) A correlation was found between burn and scald accidents and New Commonwealth immigrants and overcrowing.
(2) A cytopathogenic effect is noticed in the cultured cells overcrowed with germs.
Overgrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
(v. t.) To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress.
(v. i.) To grow beyond the fit or natural size; as, a huge, overgrown ox.
Example Sentences:
(1) They appeared slowly and by themselves did not overgrow wtSV40.
(2) Cells within monolayers do not overgrow one another and retain their epithelioid appearance after subculture.
(3) The fibroblast cells tended to overgrow the hepatocytes after several days in culture.
(4) Analysing the cases according to Clark's levels and Breslow's index, a decrease in the naevus-melanoma association was seen with tumour progression, suggesting that advanced tumours may overgrow pre-existing nevus cells, appearing as de novo melanomas.
(5) In most cases the influence is not beneficial to the patient because suppression of the indigenous microorganisms often permits potential pathogens to overgrow and cause septic conditions, stomatitis, diarrhoea, or colitis.
(6) The membrane is well tolerated as a platform for the overgrowing lining and a drum head of three layers is formed.
(7) 38 days after birth and do not significantly overgrow that level during development.
(8) It also assisted the survival of cells that were sensitive to thawing from liquid nitrogen storage, and cells that had inadvertently been allowed to overgrow.
(9) As a result, the articular cartilage remained viable and overgrowing, while the epiphyseal plates were affected by the necrosis and there was early physeal maturation occurred.
(10) stromal cells (Dexter cultures) and soon overgrow the cultures following rapid cell proliferation.
(11) Furthermore, at 40 C the cells grew as a monolayer and assumed a tetrahedral shape with a high cytoplasm-to-nucleus ratio, and displayed reduced ability to overgrow nontransformed cells.
(12) To find out the pathogenesis of overgrowing callus in brain-injured patients, further examinations are being carried out to find the histochemical activities of alkaline and acid phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, adenosine triphosphatase and acetylcholine esterase.
(13) This medium does not suit most of the contaminants but fungal hyphae overgrow the whole surface of the dish so that a purified culture can be obtained from parts distant from the inoculation site.
(14) Cotransfection of mutant p53 together with polyoma virus middle T led to cells which grew in medium containing low serum concentration, grew well in semisolid agar, and displayed an altered morphology with the tendency to overgrow the normal monolayer.
(15) Two criteria for transformation were used: the ability to form clones in medium with low serum concentrations and the ability to overgrow a monolayer.
(16) The NIH 3T3 line of mouse fibroblasts undergoes "spontaneous" transformation in culture, exhibited in the development of foci of transformed cells overgrowing the confluent monolayer.
(17) When surrounded by normal tissues, the HDT continued to proliferate and often appeared to overgrow and engulf normal elements.
(18) Extensive sampling is mandatory as the developing tumour often overgrows the foci of endometriosis, thus obliterating evidence of its origin.
(19) The discs overgrow even when transplanted early in their development into wild-type hosts, whereas normal discs stop growth at about the normal final size under such conditions, indicating that the overgrowth is a disc-autonomous effect of the mutations.
(20) After reaching confluence, cells transformed by the src gene tend to overgrow and die.