What's the difference between overgrow and overgrown?
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.
Overgrown
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overgrow
Example Sentences:
(1) But do you know the thing that really bites?” he pointed to his home, which was not visible behind an overgrown hedge.
(2) The organism was readily recovered from the lesions except when overgrown by post mortem contaminants.
(3) Myelograms showed spinal stenosis as a result of atlanto-axial dislocation, or anterior extradural compression from overgrown cartilage and posteriorly dislocated tip of shortened odontoid process.
(4) At surgery, dense adhesions were found within the joint, the articular cartilage was overgrown with pannus extending out to the lateral patella, and there was extensive deformity of the femoral condyle and tibial plateau.
(5) Further investigations have shown that all three B. coagulans-strains, although originating from different sources, were overgrown by B. subtilis.
(6) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
(7) After incubation at 22 degrees C for 14 days, the fruits and juices overgrown with mould were homogenized with ethyl acetate and subjected to thinlayer chromatography.
(8) The site of entry is not usually the wound, but the intestinal tract, which becomes overgrown by the yeasts as a consequence of the requisite therapy with antibacterial antibiotics in high dosage.
(9) With Estonia one of the most sparsely populated countries in the EU, the border is largely rural and in many places densely thicketed and overgrown.
(10) • It was a good early spring and early summer for many flowers as the dry weather meant they were not overgrown by vigorous grasses.
(11) The stents were overgrown with tracheal epithelium and, except for granuloma formation, elicited no complications.
(12) The tick has one generation per year and the adult female, which causes almost all paralysis, is abundant in spring and early summer and occurs most commonly in overgrown or regrowth country where bandicoots are abundant.
(13) Additionally, the body weight of children with undeveloped skeleton and muscles was close to the normal and it was due to overgrown fat tissue.
(14) After the growth hormone deficiency had been diagnosed and hormone substitute administered the dental age of the girl presented came closer to that of her age and sex-matched controls but did not reach the corresponding values even though the teeth were exposed by excising the overgrown gingiva.
(15) Ointments and oils can be overgrown only by highly specialized organisms but if there is condensed water as a film at boundary surfaces much more microorganism species can grow.
(16) It was also possible to identify Mycoplasma colonies overgrown by bacterial or fungal contaminants.
(17) The CsA responders had significantly more gingival units overgrown as compared with the Aza responders (P less than 0.005).
(18) Contrary to this, B-max was found to be significantly increased in the overgrown tissue sample compared to normal.
(19) The fibroblasts from normal and overgrown sites were studied in vitro.
(20) I never thought I would be calling for the day when men were men, but liberal democracy hasn’t done a very good job at stopping the overgrown tots, has it?