renervate

English

Etymology

re- +‎ nerve +‎ -ate

Verb

renervate (third-person singular simple present renervates, present participle renervating, simple past and past participle renervated)

  1. To restore nerve stimulation to.
    • 1982, Albert Vincent Godefridus Bruschke, Gerard Herpen, Frans E. E. Vermeulen, Coronary Artery Disease Today, page 90:
      In addition to that, Dr. Shumway would tell you that hearts tend to renervate after six months.
    • 2006, Claude G. Wasterlain, David M. Treiman, Status Epilepticus: Mechanisms and Management, page 441:
      Subsequently, studies by Lugaro (104), Ramón y Cajal (161), Van Harrelveld (202), Edds (49), and Hoffman (72) provided anatomic and physiologic evidence that intact fibers from partially cut peripheral nerves can generate axon sprouts that renervate muscles.
    • 2012, William J. MacLennan, Norman R. Peden, Metabolic and Endocrine Problems in the Elderly:
      Initially, surviving neurones compensate for this by producing axon branches to renervate denervated muscle fibres.
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