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- noun mathematics A
generalization of afunction
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I had to demonstrate all kinds of hyperfunction stunts a mortal wouldn't be able to do, like appearing on both sides of the net at once, just to impress him with my immortalness; and yet I had to avoid killing the old man with the ball, and -- oh yeah -- let him win somehow, too.
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So we wound up flitting through the starry night in hyperfunction, leaving no more than a blur on any cameras that might be recording our passage, and a pitiful little corpse materialized in what we hoped was a natural attitude of canine demise on the front steps of La Casa Grande.
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I begged off to go shower -- dark hairy guys who play tennis in hyperfunction tend to stink -- and slipped out afterward to do some reconnoitering.
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David Geier said his father diagnoses high-testosterone teens not with precocious puberty, but with another very rare condition: testicular hyperfunction.
Autism Hub 2009
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How does "testicular hyperfunction" explain the older girls the Geiers have treated?
Autism Hub 2009
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VD deficiency reduction of intestinal absorption of calcium and phosphate Hypocalcemia Parathyroid hormone hyperfunction hypofunction Excretion of urinary P↑ decalcification of mobilization of bone old bone↑ Calcium into blood Serum p ↓ Ca normal or slightly↓ Ca X p↓
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Unless a person has an insulinoma (a tumor of the bet cells) or hyperfunction of the beta cells for whatever reason (s), there is no over-production of insulin.
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The Twistor description of spacetime indeed turns out to ba a non-local one; moreover, there is a fundamentally 'holistic' character to the twistor description of physical fields that comes about via a remarkable feature of complex magic (namely holomorphic sheaf cohomology) that we have not yet properly encountered in this book – though we shall do so in [section 33.9] (and there was a hint of it already in the hyperfunction theory of [section 9.7]) – which meshes with another aspect of complex-number magic, namely the underlying holomorphic character of the essential positive-frequency condition of quantum field theory [sections 24.3 and 33.10].
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"Portal hypertension often causes the spleen to enlarge and hyperfunction, which was affecting her red and white blood cells.
john commented on the word hyperfunction
Something spleens do.
September 21, 2007