to regenerate
- verb
- /rɪˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/
- Specialized
- The liver is regenerating nicely.
- regenerate muscle
- regenerate cartilage
- regenerate the body
I'd like the fact that newts can regenerate their limbs.
- I'd like the fact that newts can regenerate their limbs.
- And that will then help the liver to regenerate better.
- And the best news is harvesting cork makes these trees actually regenerate themselves, which is done through photosynthesis.
- In other words, a red cell becomes a bone cell and that is what heals the fracture and it completely regenerates it so that there's no scar.
- So of our skin to regenerate to repair defects.
- It is in the genome of the tree of life to regenerate limbs.
- It's weird how like we have the worst shit that can regenerate hair.
- For me, it was my knee, and it was slowly repair the knee and then regenerate the cartilage with the stem cells.
Examples
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And that will then help the liver to regenerate better.
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I use them for people with weakened immune systems to help regenerate joints.
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I think they both have some uncommon ability to regenerate from injury.
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You, you cut a nerve in the arm and it will regenerate or in the leg, OK.
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Since then, the cells in his body have regenerated completely, at least three times.
Fiction book (1997) -
What if your brain could regenerate itself, updating its own damaged cells?
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They found a way to regenerate dead tissue.
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These creatures are engineered to regenerate.
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I'd like the fact that newts can regenerate their limbs.
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Newts can regenerate their tails if they lose them in an accident.
Synonyms
To make new parts after being cut or damaged, as plants and animals do
To grow back tissue or body parts after injury
To grow new shoots after being cut or damaged
Antonyms
How Regrown
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Regenerate uses re- 'again' and generate 'to make', so you can think of body parts as being 'made again', like a lizard growing its tail. That's why in biology regenerate means to grow again after damage.