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Definition of Overcorrects
1. overcorrect [v] - See also: overcorrect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcorrects
Literary usage of Overcorrects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by William Horatio Bates (1920)
"She is straining to see the test card at the same distance, and her hypermetropia
is lessened by two diopters so that her glass now overcorrects it and she ..."
2. Annals of Ophthalmology (1917)
"My method is in to correct with a sphere the meridian of greatest of refraction.
This overcorrects the lesser meridian ..."
3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"Grattan usually employs a long splint, curved like a cask-stove. to retain the
limb in its new position. He always overcorrects his cases of ..."
4. The Eye by Edward Engler Gibbons (1904)
"matism the formerly blurred line is never made the better by a cylindrical lens
that overcorrects the astigmatism. The lines at right angles to one another ..."
5. A Manual of Gynecology by John Cooke Hirst (1918)
"Hence the Hegar operation overcorrects and narrows the vagina; the Emmet does not.
Emmet Operation.—(i) The patient is in the dorsal position, a FIG. 98. ..."
6. A Manual of Orthopedic Surgery by Augustus Thorndike (1907)
"... (i) By a side thrust of the hand on the thorax the patient corrects or
overcorrects the dorsal curve, maintaining the correction for .1 few seconds. ..."
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