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overreplacement (countable and uncountable, plural overreplacements)

1. The 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. [c. 1980s?]

   Antonyms: underreplacement, undersupplementation

   Hypernym: replacement

   Near-synonym: oversupplementation

   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.

   • 1983, Michael Christopher Magee, Basic science for the practicing urologist, →ISBN, page 63:

     ... liberal replacement or overreplacement with blood and plasma preoperatively and operatively has made obsolete the use of vasopressors, which in the past ...