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postinfection

postinfection adjective: occurring after an infection.

Adjective

postinfection (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after an infection

Adverb

postinfection (not comparable)

  1. After an infection
    • 14 days postinfection the control cell culture exhibited many inclusions that were arranged in clusters of 5 to 10 neighbouring cells.1990, A. Clad et al., “Genital Isolates of Chlamydia trachomatis Survive 12 day Antibiotic Treatment in Vitro Due to Delayed Cell Lysis”, in William Robert Bowie, editor, Chlamydial Infections...

Noun

postinfection (plural postinfections)

  1. An infection that arises after a medical procedure.
    • Neurosurgeons must always be aware of the other causes of myelopathy. These conditions include parainfections or postinfections, systemic autoimmune disease, paraneoplastic syndromes[…]2009, Remi Nader, Abdulrahman J. Sabbagh, Neurosurgery Case Review: Questions and Answers

Forms of postinfection

pluralpostinfections

Origin of postinfection

From post- + infection.

Questions about postinfection

What does postinfection mean?
Postinfection means occurring after an infection.
What part of speech is postinfection?
Postinfection can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near postinfection in the dictionary

  1. postindustrialization
  2. postindustrially
  3. postinfarct
  4. postinfarcted
  5. postinfarction
  6. postinfection
  7. postinfectional
  8. postinfections
  9. postinfectious
  10. postinfectiously
  11. postinfective

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