overreplacement

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.

Noun

  1. 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 ... - 1983, Michael Christopher Magee, Basic science for the...

Origin

From over- + replacement.

Forms

overreplacements

Antonyms

underreplacement