单词 | overaction |
释义 | overactionn. Action in excess of what is proper, necessary, or normal. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > disordered functioning ataxy1670 overaction1741 excitement1788 perversion1834 stammering1844 incompetency1865 incompetence1876 hypermotility1894 hypomotility1900 hypofunction1905 hyperfunction1909 hypoactivity1910 hyperfunctioning1918 hypofunctioning1926 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 173 A spasmodic Overaction of the Muscles. 1838 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 254 So long as government is administered on its present principles, of general over-action and over-legislation, the perpetual check of a formidable opposition is necessary. 1870 E. Sargent Woman who Dared II. 33 The wound itself was nothing serious, But there was over-action of the brain. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 579 Auditory over-action or hyperæsthesia occasionally occurs in hysteria. 1921 A. Myerson Found. of Personality i. 13 These glands..interact in a marvelous manner so that under or overaction of any one of them upsets a balance that exists between them. 1963 Arch. Ophthalmol. 70 120/2 They advise..operation on adult cases as soon as there is increasing overaction of the direct antagonist. 2002 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. ii. 1 The kind of overaction and reaction that violates human rights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741 |
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