单词 | autoinoculation |
释义 | > as lemmasautoinoculation autoinoculation n. Brit. /ˌɔːtəʊɪnɒkjᵿˈleɪʃn/ , U.S. /ˌɔdoʊᵻˌnɑkjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ , /ˌɑdoʊᵻˌnɑkjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ [after French auto-inoculation (1846 or earlier)] Medicine †(a) deliberate inoculation or vaccination of oneself (obsolete. rare); (b) the transfer or movement of microorganisms from an initial focus of infection to another site within or on the body; an instance of this.ΚΠ 1847 Lancet 30 Oct. 458/1 I had my choice of three different modes of inoculation,—1st, auto-inoculation; 2nd, inoculation from an affected to a non-affected individual; and 3rdly, inoculation of a syphilitic patient upon himself. 1886 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 22 May 626/2 Meanwhile Pasteur was establishing the dependence of boils on the presence of a particular microbe, and thus explaining the unpleasant facility of auto-inoculation with discharges from boils. 1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Oct. 846/2 By the autoinoculation of the secretion of the hard chancre in the primary period a proliferative lesion resembling a secondary papule..is produced. 1907 Lancet 24 Aug. 494/2 We must appreciate how the organism reacts to such ‘auto-inoculations’. 2007 D. M. DeHoratius in K. A. Arndt & J. T. S. Hsu Man. Dermatol. Therapeutics (ed. 7) xxiv. 149 The disease [sc. molluscum contagiosum] is contracted from other people by direct contact or through fomites, such as bath sponges and towels, and by autoinoculation. < as lemmas |
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