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underreplace en · VERB

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Etymology

From under- + replace.

Meanings

1. To replace insufficiently
   • Since that dose almost assuredly does not cause supraphysiological hepatic portal venous glucagon concentrations, it was used to intentionally underreplace glucagon during octreotide infusion in the current study. 2007, Suzanne M. Breckenridge, Benjamin A. Cooperberg, Ana Maria Arbelaez, Bruce W. Patterson, Philip E. Cryer, “Glucagon, in Concert With Insulin, Supports the Postabsorptive Plasma Glucose Concentration in Humans”, in Diabetes, volume 56, number 10, American Diabetes Association, page Abstract:
   • Therefore, even women with the highest increases due to child mortality severely underreplace their lost children. 1975, CICRED, Seminar on Infant Mortality in Relation to the Level of Fertility, 6-12 May 1975, Bangkok, Thailand, page 240:

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