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overconcentrated en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English concentrated English overconcentrated From over- + concentrated.

Meanings

1. Excessively concentrated.
   • Extreme caution must be observed lest the heart by rapid perfusion be subjected to an overconcentrated solution. The experiment should be repeated with different doses. 1909, Charles Wilson Greene, Experimental Pharmacology: A Laboratory Guide for the Study of the Physiological Action of Drugs, P. Blakiston's Son & Company, page 19:
   • He is overconcentrated in work, and socially inert. He bribes his women in order to be let alone. 1914, The Unpopular Review, Henry Holt and Company, page 304:
   • A large number of cases of asthenopia or eye strain prevailed toward the end of a series of patrols. It is believed that this situation resulted from four factors, excessive use of the eyes, defective lighting, refractive errors, and glare. The majority of the personnel were constipated during patrol, due to lack of muscular activity and excessive consumption of an overconcentrated diet. The chief desideratum for improvement is a proper proportion of roughage. The bulk of the personnel did not have access to the open air during the entire patrol period while at sea, and daylight was not seen during this time. Deterioration of officers and men gradually developed as patrols proceeded. While in general not of a serious nature, it was indicated by loss of weight, pallor, and general loss of tone. 1920, Washington Institute of Medicine, New York Medical Journal, MD Publications, page 909:
   • Decreased normal stimulation of the intestine is largely due to an overconcentrated food-supply and diet, lacking in substances that exercise a mild irritant action, such as are found in the indigestible parts of the foods, as coarse vegetable fibers, etc. The addition of these to the diet and regularity of habit are to be advised. 1912, Delaware State Medical Journal, Delaware State Medical Journal, Delaware State Medical Journal, page 19:
   • Sometimes, too, though there be no variation of direction on the horizon, there may nevertheless be a variation of the dip, to wit, when either in a direct meridian line, i.e., on the meridian itself, there projects some magnetically powerful earthmass, or when such elevations have less force than is called for by the general constitution of the globe, or when the energy is overconcentrated in one part, and in another is diffused, as we may see in the Atlantic Ocean. 1893, Edward Wright, Paul Fleury Mottelay, William Gilbert, William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician of London: On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies and on the Great Magnet the Earth, John Wiley and Sons, pages 303-304:

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