HYPERACTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperactive mean? 

• HYPERACTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective HYPERACTIVE has 1 sense:

1. more active than normal

  Familiarity information: HYPERACTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERACTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More active than normal

Synonyms:

hyperactive; overactive

Context example:

a hyperactive child

Similar:

active (characterized by energetic activity)

Derivation:

hyperactivity (a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement)

 Context examples 

Condition characterized by splenomegaly, some reduction in the number of circulating blood cells in the presence of a normal or hyperactive bone marrow, and the potential for reversal by splenectomy.

(Hypersplenism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The research reveals how the hyperactive sugar consumption of cancerous cells leads to a vicious cycle of continued stimulation of cancer development and growth.

(Scientists Reveal The Relationship Between Sugar, Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D., professor of microbiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena observed that germ-free flies, which did not carry bacteria, were hyperactive.

(Gut bacteria may control movement, National Institutes of Health)

A person who is hyperactive may seem to be always moving or fidgeting, impulsive, unable to concentrate, and talking too much.

(Hyperactivity, NCI Dictionary)

Though Io’s hyperactive volcanoes are the ultimate source of the SO2, sunlight controls the atmospheric pressure on a daily basis by controlling the temperature of the ice on the surface.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)

The children’s scans revealed that those with ADHD symptoms had multiple areas with less brain matter volume than their typical peers, and these differences were consistent with parent reports of hyperactive and impulsive behaviors.

(Atypical brain development observed in preschoolers with ADHD symptoms, National Institutes of Health)

The mice become metabolically hyperactive and, even when consuming a diet very high in fat and sugar, are able to resist metabolic diseases such as obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and atherosclerosis, said the study’s lead researcher Filip Swirski, Ph.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

(Some gut cells slow down metabolism, accelerate cardiovascular disease, National Institutes of Health)