Definition of Hyperfunctional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperfunctional

hyperfinite
hyperflexion
hyperfocal
hyperfocal distance
hyperfocus
hyperfocused
hyperfolliculoidism
hyperforeign
hyperforeignism
hyperforeignisms
hyperfractionation
hyperfructosaemia
hyperfullerene
hyperfullerenes
hyperfunction
hyperfunctional (current term)
hyperfunctional occlusion
hyperfunctions
hyperfusion
hypergalactosis
hypergamies
hypergammaglobulinaemia
hypergamous
hypergamously
hypergamy
hyperganglionosis
hypergasia
hypergelast
hypergelasts
hypergenesis

Literary usage of Hyperfunctional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"... because small necrotic fibroids, placental rests or purely hyperfunctional changes, alone or in combination, may give quite similar symptoms. ..."

2. Enlargement of the Prostate: Its History, Anatomy, Etiology, Pathology by John Blair Deaver, Leon Herman (1922)
"... defines as hyperfunctional activity of the organ; this overstrain, he thinks, may have occurred in early or middle life (from prostatitis, urethritis, ..."

3. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"Undoubtedly more complicated are the relations in the hyperfunctional diseases—not so very much in Basedow's disease. Although in this condition we may ..."

4. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"The tests of hyperfunctional activity of the thyroid gland are as follows: "Southern Med. Jour., 1914, vii, 1. ..."

5. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"In sum, the Fair would be both a symbolic expression and a hyperfunctional ‘machine for display”32. It would be a convincing, lively and concrete vision ..."

6. The Practice of Medicine by Horatio C. Wood, Reginald Heber Fitz (1897)
"... but also to develop their structure, so that they (the trophic centres) are continually in a state of hyperfunctional activity, with a consequent ..."

7. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1893)
"Finally, hot water, internally and externally, is most effectual in subduing inflammation and to promote diuresis and hyperfunctional activity of the ducts. ..."

8. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"... which interests us, puts in hyperfunctional tension one or more cerebral provinces—let us suppose the visual zone and the frontal lobes. ..."

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