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reinˈfect, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To infect again. So reinˈfection; reinˈfectious a.
1611Cotgr., Reinfecter, to reinfect. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), To Reinfect, to infect, to give a contagious Disease a second time. 1828–32Webster, Reinfectious [cites Vaughan Med. Repos.] 1882Nature XXV. 440/1 The disease may break out in a fresh-run salmon without re-infection. 1889G. A. Smith Bk. Isaiah (ed. 2) I. 422 Not only to find it [sc. sin] ‘hindering, disturbing, complicating all’, but reinfecting with the lust and odour of sin the will which gave it birth. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 741 Recurrences are extremely common; and they are not always reinfections. 1928L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. xxi. 210 Finally, the envelope of the corpuscle bursts and the merozoites are set free. These in turn reinfect red corpuscles and develop into trophozoites, thus carrying on the cycle. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 12 Loose smut reinfects growing corn and so perpetuates the disease. |