Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause (a cell, for example) to be further infected with a microorganism; infect a second time or more.
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- verb To
infect as asuperinfection .
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- verb infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms
Etymologies
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super- + infect
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