overreplacement

plural overreplacements

1. countableuncountableThe state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has been or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.First known use c. 1980s?

   Near-synonym: oversupplementation

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   It is important to avoid overreplacement of iron in recovering patients with a minimal amount of blood loss that does not warrant aggressive iron supplementation.

   ... 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 practicing urologist, →ISBN, page 63

   Synonyms: oversupplementation · Antonyms: underreplacement, undersupplementation