superinject

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verb

To administer a successive injection.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbsuperinject (third-person singular simple present superinjects, present participle superinjecting, simple past and past participle superinjected)

present singular third person superinjects · participle present superinjecting · participle past superinjected · past superinjected

  1. transitivemedicineTo administer a successive injection.

    […] by the introduction into test sites of histamine with the production of a wealing reaction or the superinjection of saline into the test site.

    2012, G. Dick, Immunological Aspects of Infectious Diseases
    2 more examples

    Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.

    1949 August 29, The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1949-08: Vol 30 Iss 4

    Since it was inconvenient to superinject at an interval shorter than 30 min. and since longer periods of up to 2 hr. between injection and superinjection gave no greater reduction, […]

    1958, British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy 1958: Vol 13

Origin

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