reintervention
- noun
- /ˌriːɪnˈtɜːrvənʃən/
- Specialized
:
reintervención
- After the initial surgery failed, the doctors scheduled a reintervention to correct the complications.
Examples
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In the case of cancer, for instance, early treatment and reintervention (when necessary) are generally associated with a reduced risk of mortality.
Academic text (2011) -
Particularly, more intense initial treatment, higher cumulative treatment dosage, and early reintervention have been associated with sustained abstinence over multiple years.
Academic text (2011) -
The patient required a reintervention to address the issues that arose from the first operation.
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Following the unexpected complications, the team decided that a reintervention was necessary to ensure the patient's recovery.
Synonyms
1
5.9
To give medical care again when the first care did not work
Second surgery after an earlier one when the first did not fix the problem
Antonyms
How Invasive
- Specialized
- Specialized
12
4.0
- Specialized
4
3.6
28
3.3
211
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
reintervention = intervention (transparent) = re + interven + tion
The meaning is directly 'another intervention' or 'a repeat intervention' in the same medical sense.
Etymology
Reintervention breaks into re- meaning 'again' and intervention meaning 'a step in to help or fix something', the same idea you see in the verb intervene; so a medical reintervention is a second operation or action to fix problems after the first treatment did not work.