RECONSTITUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reconstitute mean? 

• RECONSTITUTE (verb)
  The verb RECONSTITUTE has 1 sense:

1. construct or form anew or provide with a new structure

  Familiarity information: RECONSTITUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONSTITUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reconstitute    ... he / she / it reconstitutes   
Past simple: reconstituted   
Past participle: reconstituted   
-ing form: reconstituting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Construct or form anew or provide with a new structure

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

reconstitute; restructure

Context example:

The governing board was reconstituted

Hypernyms (to "reconstitute" is one way to...):

structure (give a structure to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Treatment with chemotherapy drugs at levels that will also destroy the bone marrow, followed by infusion of stem cells to reconstitute the immune system.

(High-Dose Chemotherapy with Stem Cell Support, NCI Thesaurus)

Cks-1 has also been identified in a reconstituted system as an essential component for recruitment of p27 for degradation by the SCF complex.

(p27 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A procedure in which hematopoietic stem cells are given for another reason, not to reconstitute the patient's immune system.

(Alternative Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

A solution that is reconstituted from a frozen pre-mixed form intended for intravenous administration simultaneously with an established compatible maintenance infusion drug by a mutual intravenous access.

(Frozen Premix Intravenous Piggyback Solution Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone marrow is removed prior to bone marrow ablation treatment and then returned to reconstitute the hematopoietic system.

(Autologous bone marrow transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

Paleontologists have been working to reconstitute a complete sauropod skeleton from several different specimens that have been unearthed from Angeac-Charente in the last decade — with the reconstruction now around 50 per cent complete.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Adoptive immunotherapy with cytomegalovirus IE-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes may help reconstitute CD8+ cytomegalovirus-specific CTL responses in CMV-infected immunocompromised hosts.

(Cytomegalovirus IE-1-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of hematopoietic reconstitution, Peripheral Stem Cell Transplants utilize (transfuse) hematopoietic stem cells harvested from circulating blood of an autologous, syngeneic, or allogeneic donor to reconstitute the bone marrow of the transplant recipient.

(Peripheral Stem Cell Transplant, NCI Thesaurus)

A small medicinal particle or grain made available in its more stable dry form, to be reconstituted with solvent just before dispensing to form a suspension; the extended release system achieves slow release of the drug over an extended period of time and maintains constant drug levels in the blood or target tissue.

(Extended Release Granule for Suspension Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Upon immunoprophylactic adoptive cell therapy, infusion of allogeneic Ad-specific CTLs may help reconstitute Ad-specific CTL responses in patients at risk of developing Ad infections after allogeneic stem cell transplant or in Ad-infected immunocompromised hosts.

(Allogeneic Adenovirus-specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)