overactive

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The disease develops when repeated or long-term liver damage -- caused by viral hepatitis, excessive alcohol use, metabolic disorders, toxins, or autoimmune disease -- triggers an overactive healing response.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

The company launched a new product for overactive bladder called Altaviva.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

“I have a prescription for an overactive bladder.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

She credits what her father jokes is “an overactive sense of justice” to her grandparents, who ran a corner store in Santa Ana in the 1940s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

It might be my overactive imagination, but Ren’s smile seems tighter than everyone else’s, his happiness for me strained.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu