REENTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reentry mean? 

• REENTRY (noun)
  The noun REENTRY has 1 sense:

1. the act of entering again

  Familiarity information: REENTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REENTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of entering again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reentry" is a kind of...):

return (the act of going back to a prior location)

Derivation:

re-enter (enter again)

 Context examples 

When substrates are released from CNX by glucosidase II, they may be transferred to one of 2 pathways: EDEM for degradation or UUGT for reentry into CNX cycle.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An electrocardiographic finding of a regular supraventricular tachycardia due to reentry within the AV node.

(Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia without discernible P waves and an irregular ventricular response due to multiple reentry circuits.

(Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A disorder characterized by a long standing and persistent uncoordinated atrial myocardium activation due to multiple reentry circuits with consequent deterioration of atrial mechanical function.

(Chronic Atrial Fibrillation, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of ventricular tachycardia incorporating both bundle branches into the reentry circuit.

(Bundle Branch Re-Entrant Ventricular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Histone H3 phosphorylation by Aurora-2 induces chromatin condensation, and dephosphorylation by PP1 promotes chromatin decondensation for reentry into interphase.

(AKAP8 in Mitosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)