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n. (context pathology English) Any infection that arises subsequent to a pre-existing infection; but especially a nosocomial infection
Usage examples of "secondary infection".
If, by virtue of the strict quarantine in which he lay, he did not contract a secondary infection, pulmonary, pneumonic, or bronchial seemed the readiest to pounce on the weakened patient, then he ought to improve rapidly.
If, by virtue of the strict quarantine in which he lay, he did not contract a secondary infection—.
The spread rate of the Moonseed, from both primary and secondary infection sites, had reduced drastically as the Moonseed had sunk into the crust.
If we can keep him from dying of secondary infection, he'll recover.
Had he not treated her--well, in this climate, just the heat might have done it, or certainly the dehydration, or maybe some opportunistic secondary infection.
Half a dozen cells were initially infected, they produced several million viruses each and lysed-the secondary infection was almost total.
Edward caught a secondary infection from something that had been smeared on the stake.