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Definition of Overtreated
1. overtreat [v] - See also: overtreat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtreated
Literary usage of Overtreated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Occasional Lectures on the Practice of Medicine: Addressed Chiefly to the by Walter Butler Cheadle (1900)
"Pneumonia and Pleurisy Pneumonia, formerly fatally overtreated ... and yet no
disease perhaps has been, and still is, so overtreated—as pneumonia; ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"overtreated (so-called ... a yellow to brownish-yellow color, and the fat, as
well as the solutions of the fat, from overtreated flours are also colored. ..."
3. Report of an Investigation of Water and Sewage Purification Plant in Ohio by Ohio State Board of Health, Charles Oliver Probst, R. Winthrop Pratt, Philip Burgess, A. Elliott Kimberly (1908)
"... greatly influenced by the fact that the settling basins are not baffled and
that there are currents in the basins, which cause overtreated water to flow ..."
4. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"This patient was overtreated. Mixed treatment by mouth with rest in bed for weeks
might have prolonged life; probably it would not have affected the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Many operators have used insufficient quantities of radium thus giving inefficient
doses, or else, on the other hand, have overtreated the local growth, ..."
6. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"This is, we know, what happens with sulphuric acid when the oil is overtreated.
But, in the case of overtreatment with sulphuric acid, the evil is almost ..."
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