Overscattering

It is indeed a difficult mean to hit between overcrowding and overscattering.

[…] a pointless anxiety about "overscattering" takes hold, propelling the story to its somewhat ironic finale in which they are desperately scattered upon the face of the earth.

Pre-fixation of embryos in the first fixative solution could decrease the dissociation or overscattering of blastomeres.

This technique was modified to avoid artifactual loss of chromosomes by overscattering, and the ooplasmic matrix was retained […]