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Example sentences for "overgrowth"

Lexicographically close words:
overfull; overgrazing; overground; overgrow; overgrown; overhand; overhang; overhanging; overhangs; overhasty
  1. The man's father had died suddenly of heart disease.

  2. Bouillon and Desbois, two French physicians of the last century, both record examples of the uterus rupturing in the last stages of pregnancy and the mother recovering.

  3. Among the older writers who note this traumatic injury are Fine, who mentions concussion rupturing the right ventricle, and Ludwig, who reports a similar accident.

  4. During this time were performed the experiments on digestion which are so well known.

  5. In nine of these cases there was no fracture, and either no bruise of the parietes or a very slight one.

  6. Some observers have stated that reflex movements of the face were quite noticeable.

  7. According to Ashhurst, Gamgee has collected 28 cases of rupture of this viscus, including one observed by himself.

  8. The eyelids form a favorite site for tumors, and above all, warts, which consist in a simple diseased overgrowth (hypertrophy) of the surface layers of the skin.

  9. These are essentially a morbid overgrowth of the superficial papillary layer of the skin and of the investing cuticular layer.

  10. Very broad warts that can not be treated in this way may be burned down with a soldering bolt at a red heat to beneath the surface of the skin, and any subsequent tendency to overgrowth kept down by bluestone.

  11. Yet these crumbling walls and towers, emerging at intervals from a leafy overgrowth of creepers and trees, claim a larger share of our attention than a merely passing notice of the port of Trebizond.

  12. It is evident, therefore, that in the scurvy of infants as well as of guinea-pigs there is no overgrowth of putrefactive bacteria in the intestinal tract, and therefore no basis for the hypothesis of ptomaine or similar intoxication.

  13. Kohlbrugge included scurvy in his group of "fermentive diseases," due to the overgrowth of harmful bacteria in the intestine, which are normally restrained by the acid reaction of the chyme.

  14. Dissections show that the flexion of the finger is the result of a chronic interstitial overgrowth or fibrositis and subsequent contraction of the palmar fascia and of its prolongations on to the sides of the fingers.

  15. This is usually present at birth or appears in early childhood, and may form part of an overgrowth involving the entire lower extremity (Fig.

  16. The changes related to the synovial membrane here attain their maximum development, and may assume the form of hydrops with or without fibrinous bodies, or of overgrowth of the synovial fringes and the formation of pedunculated loose bodies.

  17. The overgrowth may involve all the tissues equally, or the subcutaneous fat may be specially affected.

  18. As a result of both of these factors the joint is liable to repeated slight strains or jars which irritate the synovial membrane and tend to keep up the effusion and excite the overgrowth of its tissue elements.

  19. In this type the lymph nodes, particularly in the arm-pit, and groins show inflammatory lesions with marked overgrowth of new tissue.

  20. The true granular kidney, classified by some as a third variety, is usually part of a general arterial degeneration, the overgrowth of fibrous tissue in the kidney and the lesions in the arteries being well marked.

  21. When the overgrowth of fibrous tissue is considerable, the surface of the organ becomes uneven, and it is for this reason that the term granular kidney has been applied to the condition.

  22. There is little doubt but that many of the remains, both in Gairloch and elsewhere, have been obliterated by the husbandman, or concealed by overgrowth of heather and other plants.

  23. No doubt the remains of many are now concealed by an overgrowth of heather and other plants, and many more have been destroyed by agricultural operations.

  24. Häckel was probably the first to describe reproduction as ‘an overgrowth of the individual,’ and he attempted to explain heredity as a simple continuity of growth.

  25. It is not straight as in health, but is tortuous, because the overgrowth in the walls, which makes it thick, has also made it longer than normal, thus producing tortuosity.

  26. Chronic poisoning by alcohol induces hardening and calcification in the walls of the arteries, degeneration of the nerve cells and dendrites, wasting or overgrowth of the heart muscle, and fatty degeneration of the liver and kidneys.

  27. Still the head could neither be left a bare frame of bones, on account of the extremes of heat and cold in the different seasons, nor yet be allowed to be wholly covered, and so become dull and senseless by reason of an overgrowth of flesh.

  28. Still, the head could not be left a bare globe of bone on account of the extremes of heat and cold, nor be allowed to become dull and senseless by an overgrowth of flesh.

  29. Such fasciations are due to several buds fusing laterally under compression when young and the whole mass growing up in common, or, in a few cases, to the unilateral overgrowth of one side of the terminal bud.

  30. There may be an overgrowth of the fatty fringes of the synovial sheath, a condition described as "arborescent lipoma.

  31. The morbid changes in the joints present a remarkable combination of atrophy and degeneration on the one hand and overgrowth on the other, indicating a profound disturbance of nutrition in the joint structures.

  32. These may result in overgrowth of the connective-tissue framework of the muscle and degeneration of its fibres, or in suppuration and the formation of one or more abscesses in the muscle substance.

  33. This is more accurately described as an overgrowth of the soft tissues along the edge of the nail.

  34. The glands are usually larger than in tuberculosis, and they remain longer discrete and movable; they are firm in consistence, and on section present a granular appearance due to overgrowth of the connective-tissue framework.

  35. The lesion consists in an overgrowth of epidermis which often presents an alveolar arrangement.

  36. A #false neuroma# is an overgrowth of the sheath of a nerve.

  37. The fibrous odontoma is the result of an overgrowth of fibrous tissue surrounding the tooth sac, which encapsulates the tooth and prevents its eruption.

  38. Soldau believes that the pigmentation and overgrowth of the epidermis in moles are associated with, and probably result from, a fibromatosis of the cutaneous nerves.

  39. They take origin almost exclusively from an erratic overgrowth of the fringes of the synovial membrane, and may consist entirely of fat, the arborescent lipoma (Fig.

  40. In the somewhat less common form of this rare disease the overgrowth of bone affects all the cranial bones as well as those of the face, the senses being lost one by one and death finally resulting from cerebral pressure.

  41. Exophthalmos gradually develops, going on later to a complete loss of sight due to compression of the optic nerve by the overgrowth of bone.

  42. It is probable that the overgrowth of connective tissue is induced by the repeated congestions of the malarial attacks, and by the obstruction due to catarrh of the bile-ducts which so often occurs in the febrile paroxysms.

  43. Dickinson, Trousseau, and Budd describe an overgrowth of connective tissue, as well as of the cells of the liver, producing a hypertrophic cirrhosis.

  44. Do we possess any means to check the overgrowth of connective tissue {1001} in cases of sclerosis?

  45. German practitioners believe that the chloride of ammonium is a powerful alterant and deobstruent, and prescribe it in this affection to stop the overgrowth of connective tissue.

  46. For parasitism and likewise slavery infallibly entail the degradation of certain structures and an overgrowth of others by the law of use and disuse.

  47. In them is an increased activity of the posterior lobe in association with enlargement and hyperfunction of the anterior, overgrowth is not so marked, and the individual is lean and mentally acute.

  48. And this overgrowth can only be removed by explanation and investigation, and each who works at the task is, consciously or unconsciously, in the train of the Hercules who is pioneering the future of humanity.

  49. Often these societies are in the nature of overgrowth and undergrowth--one society living beneath another.

  50. Even in humbler communities, the overgrowth and undergrowth are usually apparent if one looks closely.

  51. A fibrous overgrowth of the inner coat of an artery.

  52. A verruca is a circumscribed overgrowth of all the layers of the skin, varying in size from a pin's head to a small nut.

  53. Overgrowth of a part due to a multiplication of its elements.

  54. Induration and overgrowth of the connective tissue of an organ.

  55. An important fact to note is that the blastopore is included in this overgrowth of epiblast, so that the neural tube remains for some time in open communication with the archenteron by means of a posterior neurenteric canal.

  56. The continued use of large doses of alcohol produces chronic gastritis, in which the continued irritation has led to overgrowth of connective tissue, atrophy of the gastric glands and permanent cessation of the gastric functions.

  57. If the types of tissue are much alike, the union is good and you do not have either overgrowth of stock or undergrowth of scion very much, but you have what is called a good union.

  58. Excessive novel-reading creates an overgrowth of the passions.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overgrowth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; development; exaggeration; excess; exorbitance; extravagance; extreme; extremism; extremity; gluttony; growth; hyperbole; hypertrophy; incontinence; intemperance; inundation; maturation; outgrowth; overgrowth; overmuch; overpass; overrun; overweight; procreation; radicalism; reproduction; superiority; surplus; unreasonableness; vegetation