rearrest
- noun
- /ˌriːəˈrɛst/
- Specialized
- Doctors were concerned about the patient's risk of rearrest after he had been resuscitated from his initial cardiac arrest.
Examples
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The study focused on the likelihood of rearrest among patients who had previously experienced cardiac arrest.
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Following her recovery, the medical team monitored her closely to prevent a rearrest of her cardiac condition.
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The basic assumption is that the odds of rearrest for those arrested just once over a given period are not very different from the odds of being arrested for the first time for those never arrested over the same period.
Academic text (2005) -
Since capture-recapture estimates are based on assessing rearrest probabilities, we eliminated multiple counts, namely cases of multiple offense-related charges laid on the same or the following days (about 3% of cases).
Academic text (2005) -
Capture-recapture estimates rely on the odds of a second-only rearrest (for those arrested just once) to infer (assuming a truncated Poisson distribution of such events) the odds of being arrested just once.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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3.7
A sudden stop of the heart that stops blood flow and can cause death if not treated
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5.4
When the heart and lungs suddenly stop working, breathing and heartbeat stop
Surface Forms
Morphology
rearrest = arrest (semi-transparent) = re + arrest
The form is clearly re- + arrest, but this sense is medical and requires knowledge of 'arrest' meaning the heart stopping, which may not be familiar to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Rearrest comes from the prefix re- meaning 'again' and arrest meaning 'stop'. So, in medicine a rearrest is when the heart or breathing 'stops again' after it was restarted.