Overreplacement

Origin

- + replacement

Full definition of overreplacement

Noun

1. c. 1980s? The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal.
• 1983, Michael Christopher Magee, Basic science for the practicing urologist, ... liberal replacement or overreplacement with blood and plasma preoperatively and operatively has made obsolete the use of vasopressors, which in the past ...