hyper-, hyp-
(Greek: above, over; excessive; more than normal; abnormal excess [in medicine]; abnormally great or powerful sensation [in physical or pathological terms]; highest [in chemical compounds])
A common disorder which produces a lot of unhappiness. Usually a small number of people suffer from excessive sweating of the underarms (axillary hyperhidrosis) or of the palms and soles of the feet (palmoplantar hyperhidrosis).
Underarm problems tend to start in late adolescence, while palm and sole sweating often begins earlier, around the age of thirteen (on the average). Untreated, these problems may continue throughout life.
Excessive sweating is embarrassing because it stains clothes, ruins romance, and complicates business, and social interactions.
Severe cases can have serious practical consequences as well, making it hard for people who suffer from it to hold a pen, grip a car steering wheel, or even to shake hands.
2. An undue response to a stimulus: Darcy's hyperirritability came apparent when he accidentally saw his father who had mistreated him as a child.
The reference to "electrolyte" involves various ions, such as sodium, potassium, or chloride, which are required by cells in the body to regulate the electric charges and flows of water molecules across the cell membranes.
2. An agent that increases the volume of blood flow.
2. Purposeless and uncontrollable muscular movement; trembling, shaking, nervous twitching.
2. Certain recurring or continuous involuntary movements seen in disease of the central nervous system; such as, chorea (ceaseless rapid complex body movements that look well coordinated and purposeful but are, in fact, involuntary) and athetosis (repetitive involuntary, slow, sinuous, writhing movements; or twisting, snake-like, or worm-like movements).
2. Wildly fast-paced or excited; frenetic: "The clerk presented a hyperkinetic sales pitch on the phone."
Related "above, over, beyond the normal, excessive" word units: epi-; super-, supra-, sur; ultra-, ult-.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing": copi-; exuber-; multi-; opulen-; ple-; pleio-; plethor-; poly-; super-; total-; ultra-; undu-.