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overreplacement

noun

Etymology

From over- + replacement.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. prefixed as replace — “re + place”
  8. suffixed as replacement — “replace + ment”
  9. prefixed as overreplacement — “over + replacement”

Definitions

  1. The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being…

    The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.

    • ... liberal replacement or overreplacement with blood and plasma preoperatively and operatively has made obsolete the use of vasopressors, which in the past ...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overreplacement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA