She just has what doctors would call overactive tear ducts. From Wordnik.com. [Unearthly Asylum] Reference
In their ads, Pfizer barely mentions the term overactive bladder. From Wordnik.com. [Take Your Bladder Back from Pfizer] Reference
In sum, to Rossi, that role is an "overactive" federal mandate that throws into relief Rossi's vision for limited government. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
Bigfoot, real, or just a figment of overactive imaginations?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007] Reference
It turned out that Zalaznick had an overactive thyroid gland. From Wordnik.com. [It's All In Your Neck] Reference
I have a man with severely overactive salivary glands for you. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Can You Find Love in a Bar?] Reference
They suppress cellular functions that appear to be overactive. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Galland, M.D.: Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health] Reference
They both had active minds -- overactive in devising deviltry. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Just a paranoid drunk and druggie with an overactive imagination?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2005] Reference
Are they just signs or are they just overactive imaginations at work?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005] Reference
(Both overactive and underactive thyroids swell for different reasons.). From Wordnik.com. [It's All In Your Neck] Reference
When the furnace is off, it can either be cold or it can be overactive. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2008] Reference
They said that I was either dreaming, I imagined it, I had an overactive brain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007] Reference
"I think perhaps your imagination has been overactive, Miss Jamieson," he said. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
Her silly overactive imagination ran wild with fantasies of making love to him. From Wordnik.com. [Shiver]
He put it down to an overactive imagination suffering from a surplus of stimuli. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
The last thing he needed going into a pre-nova system was an overactive imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
The other common form -- "urge incontinence" -- involves an overactive bladder muscle. From Wordnik.com. [An Unspeakable Affliction] Reference
Also overactive is a region involved in shifting attention, called the cingulate gyrus. From Wordnik.com. [The Anatomy of Violence] Reference
It might be able to selectively turn off brain cells that are overactive, as in epilepsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Light Fantastic] Reference
Of course, his advice was likely a scare tactic to help me tame my overactive sweet tooth. From Wordnik.com. [Thin people can’t get type 2 diabetes, and other myths] Reference
At the end of that time the comfortably monotonous exercise had slowed down his overactive mind. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
ISAACSON: Well, a lot of kids on the autism spectrum seem to suffer from an overactive neurology. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2009] Reference
It was originally designed for overactive or under-active bladder, or even for management of pain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2003] Reference
"To pursue my overactive imagination," I said loud enough that he could hear me, and kept walking. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Witches]
The company is targeting treatment of chronic migraine headaches and overactive bladders, in particular. From Wordnik.com. [Botox Sales Plump Up Allergan's Net] Reference
For most of the last century, scientists dismissed synesthesia as the product of overactive imaginations. From Wordnik.com. [Real Rhapsody In Blue] Reference
The Shining: A great horror movie and a horrible situation for many men with overactive sebaceous glands. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon Perdis: Who's Grooming Who: Makeup and the Modern Male] Reference
His overactive mind captures the heart of his future wife, Alicia (Jennifer Connelly), one of his students. From Wordnik.com. [Have Yourself A Movie Little Xmas] Reference
Visualizing and physical exercises help to stimulate the underactive parts and tamp down the overactive parts. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball's Other Drug Problem] Reference
There might just be something in the water in Wechsler's building that explains his board's overactive adrenal glands. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: No Smoke Without Ire] Reference
A device similar to a pacemaker is then implanted near the collarbone, and sends a current that blocks the overactive circuits. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: "Out, Damned Spot! Out, I Say!": Wrestling With the Demons of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder] Reference
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