| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
autoinfection au·to·in·fec·tion (ô'tō-ĭn-fěk'shən)
n.
Reinfection by microbes or parasitic organisms that are present on or within the body.
Self-infection by direct contact with a contagious agent, as with parasite eggs in the infectious state transmitted by fingernails. Also called autoreinfection.