Rechallenge
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Rechallenge is a verb meaning To challenge again.
Meaning
To challenge again.
More Meanings
- To challenge in return.
- A challenge made in return.
- (medicine, pharmacology) The event of rechallenging as above.
- (medicine, pharmacology) To try a therapeutic pharmaceutical drug, suspected allergen, or medical treatment on a patient a second or subsequent time, to see if the suspected effects of the treatment occur again. This is typically performed to confirm allergic or adverse reactions to allergens or medications, but may also be used to confirm beneficial treatments or to retry a probable beneficial treatment which did not appear to be effective previously.
Word Forms
- rechallenges
- rechallenging
- rechallenged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include recompete, rematch, retrigger, re-encounter, reinterview, reexperience.
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