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hypermature

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hypermature /hy·per·ma·ture/ (-mah-choor´) past the stage of maturity.


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The thinking in law enforcement and intelligence is that people selected for this purpose are emotionally immature or hypermature, which makes them vulnerable for "brainwashing.
Confronted with stress, they are prone to regress to earlier developmental levels or adopt different states of ego organization, ranging from infantile and near psychotic to hypermature behavior.
Her WBC was normal at about 8,000/mm3, but she had 64 per cent lymphocytes that were monotonously small, dark, and hypermature.
 
 
 
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