Wiktionary
n. 1 A second or subsequent examination. 2 (context legal English) Subsequent questioning of a witness after cross-examination. 3 (context legal US English) In United States patent law, a procedure under which an issued patent is returned to the examiner to determine if it remains valid in light of newly discovered prior art.
Usage examples of "re-examination".
In January of this year, eleven of the lepers, on whom the disease, after having committed certain ravages, showed no further signs of activity, were brought back to Honolulu for re-examination.
With the exception of a startling pathological discovery which she'd known about virtually the moment the Italian made it there was every practical working reason to wait until the man finished his re-examinations of all the remains before updating her profile rather than add each individual piece of the jigsaw as it emerged.