hyper-, hyp- +

Excessive rate of healing.

An abnormally high degree of acidity, as of the gastric juice.

1. Overly active; such as, the inability to relax or to sit quietly.
2. Developmental hyperactivity of children is characterized by constant motion-exploring, experimenting, etc.; and is usually accompanied by distraction and frustration.

Hyperactivity may result from brain damage and psychosis, but not necessarily.

Rosacea is a painful acne-like skin disorder, characterized by dilated blood vessels and persistent redness of the face.

There is evidence that cathelicidin peptides (which are chemotactic, angiogenic, and bactericidal, and are important for innate immune responses in the skin) are involved in the pathogenesis of rosacea.

1. A condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement.
2. A higher than normal level of activity.

A body organ can be described as hyperactive if it is more active than normal and a person's behavior can also be considered as hyperactive.

People who are hyperactive always seem to be in motion. They can't sit still; they may dash around or talk incessantly. Sitting still through a lesson can be an impossible task. They may roam around the room, squirm in their seats, wiggle their feet, touch everything, or noisily tap a pencil. They may also feel intensely restless.

The increased sharpness of sense perceptions.

1. Abnormally acute (sharp and loud) hearing, sometimes resulting in pain even when only moderately loud sounds are in the area of the subject; formerly, hyperacousia.
2. Increased sharpness of hearing or a condition that exists when sounds are perceived as unduly loud.

Glandular enlargement, especially of the lymphatic glands.

An extreme degree of adiposis, or fatness.

A greater than normal concentration of epinephrine in the blood.

Epinephrine is a substance produced by the medulla (inside) of the adrenal gland.

The name epinephrine was coined in 1898 by the American pharmacologist and physiologic chemist (biochemist) John Jacob Abel who isolated it from the adrenal gland which is located above (epi-) the kidney (Greek nephros).

Epinephrine causes increased rapidness of the heart beat, strengthens the force of the heart's contraction, opens up the airways (bronchioles) in the lungs, and has numerous other effects.

Excessive sensitivity to painful stimuli; also called hyperalgia.

A reference to an exaggerated sense of pain.

Relating to hyperalgesia (an excessive sensitiveness or sensibility to pain).

Extreme sensitiveness to pain.

1. Intravenous feeding that provides patients with all essential nutrients when they are unable to feed themselves.
2. A program of parenteral administration of all nutrients for patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction; called also total parenteral alimentation (TPA) and total parenteral nutrition (TPN). 3. The ingestion, or eating, of excessive quantities of food, etc.; such as, bulimia and binge eating (uncontrolled ingestion of large quantities of food in a given amount of time, often with a sense of lack of control over the activity.

It is sometimes followed by forcing oneself to vomit, or purging through use of laxatives.