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Definition of Overtreatment
1. Noun. (medicine) Excessive treatment, often specifically medical treatment ¹
2. Noun. (context: interior decoration) A window treatment added above an existing treatment ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overtreatment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtreatment
Literary usage of Overtreatment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"In the remaining cases, myxedema developed, possibly as a result of overtreatment.
The number of treatments in Group 3 averaged the same as those of Group 1 ..."
2. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Thyroxine replacement therapy can have adverse effects with even moderate degrees
of overtreatment (as detected by low TSH or high TT4 levels), ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"As in the treatment of syphilis, a definite overtreatment syndrome with marked
idiosyncrasy, loss of weight, pallor and nervousness is an indication for ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1883)
"But, in the case of overtreatment with sulphuric acid, the evil is almost completely
removed in the next distillation, while, with selenium, it is not, ..."
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