verb
- past tense and past participle of reinoculate; to inoculate again with a vaccine, serum, or infectious material
Usage: medical; scientific
Examples
- The patient was reinoculated with the updated vaccine after the previous dose proved ineffective.
- Scientists reinoculated the cell cultures to ensure proper bacterial growth.
- The livestock were reinoculated against the disease following the outbreak.
- After the initial vaccination failed, the children were reinoculated with a different strain.
- The laboratory samples were reinoculated to confirm the experimental results.
- Due to waning immunity, elderly patients were reinoculated with the booster shot.