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Definition of Overstimulation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstimulation
Literary usage of Overstimulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Case for the Shorter Work Day. Franklin O. Bunting, Plaintiff in Error by Felix Frankfurter, Josephine Clara Goldmark, Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1915)
"(4) Nervous Diseases and overstimulation. The onset of nervous exhaustion is
often unperceived. A special danger to health arises when, after excessive work ..."
2. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"Common Causes of Vagus overstimulation.—Aside from poisoning by digitalis,
strophanthus, aconite, etc., vagus overaction may occur in varying degree in ..."
3. Trade Associations: Their Organization and Management by Emmett Hay Naylor (1921)
"... overstimulation of Sales a Danger Like everything else, however, this effort
to create greater demand can be overdone and associations in seeking to ..."
4. Therapeutic Gazette (1905)
"... cause them to contract, about a dozen contractions being sufficient, remembering
that too many contractions cause overstimulation, and hence weakening. ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1869)
"Thus, habitual overuse or overstimulation of a part, by producing determination
of blood to it, may readily drive it into inflammation. ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"These two sensations apprise the organism of overstimulation. Moderate overstimulation
is followed by a feeling of fatigue. Nature is requesting a rest. ..."
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