verb
- to inoculate again, especially to give another vaccination or to introduce microorganisms into a culture medium again
Usage: medical; scientific
Examples
- The doctor decided to reinoculate the patient against measles.
- Scientists had to reinoculate the bacterial culture after contamination.
- The veterinarian will reinoculate the livestock next month.
- Researchers reinoculated the petri dishes with fresh samples.
- The clinic plans to reinoculate all children who received expired vaccines.
- After the lab accident, they needed to reinoculate all the test cultures.