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Definition of Overcorrecting
1. overcorrect [v] - See also: overcorrect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcorrecting
Literary usage of Overcorrecting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"The adhesions being thoroughly broken, the feet were placed in a position slightly
overcorrecting the deformity, and then encased in the usual immobile ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"A taut muscle can be relieved by overcorrecting the joint. We often pronounce
muscles permanently paralyzed and subject the patient indefinitely to the ..."
3. Animal Micrology: Practical Exercises in Zoölogical Micro-technique by Michael Frederic Guyer (1917)
"... the objective and then to rectify the aberration by overcorrecting the ocular.
The so-called searching ocular is a low-power compensating ocular used ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"The apparent myopia in such cases is due to the ciliary muscle overcorrecting
the hyperopia. This condition is most frequent in healthy young adults, ..."
5. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"Lange employs similar splints made of celluloid from an overcorrecting model.
In about ten days the knee flexion, which is at first painful, ..."
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