rechallenge (English, verb)
expansion: rechallenge (third-person singular simple present rechallenges, present participle rechallenging, simple past and past participle rechallenged)
Senses:
glosses: To challenge again.
glosses: To challenge in return.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: rechallenges
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rechallenging
tags: participle
present
form: rechallenged
tags: participle
past
form: rechallenged
tags: past