superinject

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English

Etymology

From super- +‎ inject.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. (medicine, transitive) To administer a successive injection.
    • 1949 August, The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1949-08: Vol 30 Iss 4:
      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.
    • 1958, British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy 1958: Vol 13:
      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, []
    • 2012, G. Dick, Immunological Aspects of Infectious Diseases:
      [] by the introduction into test sites of histamine with the production of a wealing reaction or the superinjection of saline into the test site.