Meanings
present singular third person superinjects · participle present superinjecting · participle past superinjected · past superinjected
- 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 Diseases2 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 4Since 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
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