What's the difference between overgrown and undergrown?
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?
Undergrown
Definition:
(a.) Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.
Example Sentences:
(1) All infants were undergrown, underweight, and malnourished.
(2) Serial cephalometry is useful not only in defining the risk for intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in relation to each fetus' growth potential but also in identifying symmetric versus asymmetric undergrown fetuses.
(3) These enzyme activities were also found to be similarly normal in another placenta from an undergrown fetus (case 6) and in six normal placentas.
(4) The 3p- syndrome (terminal deletion of the short arm of chromosome 3 with breakpoint at 3p25) was found in the G-banded karyotypes from an undergrown and developmentally retarded 13-month-old girl with a distinct pattern of congenital abnormalities.
(5) 293 were normally grown and full term, 172 normally grown but premature, and 77 were undergrown.
(6) The value of the head-to-abdomen circumference ratio close to term in delineating asymmetric undergrown fetuses is discussed.
(7) Mean placental hCS concentration was not decreased in association with undergrown infants though placental hCS was correlated with maternal hCS (r=0 - 245).
(8) Most infants born with a cleft palate with or without cleft lip are undergrown and have histories of difficult feeding.
(9) His mandible is undergrown and his ribs have an abnormal slope.