Meanings
present singular third person underreplaces · participle present underreplacing · participle past underreplaced · past underreplaced
- To replace insufficiently
Therefore, even women with the highest increases due to child mortality severely underreplace their lost children.
1975, CICRED, Seminar on Infant Mortality in Relation to the Level of Fertility, 6-12 May 1975, Bangkok, Thailand, page 2401 more example
Since that dose almost assuredly does not cause supraphysiological hepatic portal venous glucagon concentrations, it was used to intentionally underreplace glucagon during octreotide infusion in the current study.
2007, Suzanne M. Breckenridge, Benjamin A. Cooperberg, Ana Maria Arbelaez, Bruce W. Patterson, Philip E. Cryer, “Glucagon, in Concert With Insulin, Supports the Postabsorptive Plasma Glucose Concentration in Humans”, in Diabetes, volume 56, number 10, American Diabetes Association, page Abstract
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