REGENERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regeneration mean? 

• REGENERATION (noun)
  The noun REGENERATION has 4 senses:

1. (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs

2. feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input

3. the activity of spiritual or physical renewal

4. forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting

  Familiarity information: REGENERATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGENERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regeneration"):

morphallaxis (regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters)

Derivation:

regenerate (undergo regeneration)

regenerate (replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

positive feedback; regeneration

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

feedback (the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regeneration"):

vicious circle; vicious cycle (one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first)

Derivation:

regenerate (amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The activity of spiritual or physical renewal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

resurgence; revitalisation; revitalization; revival; revivification (bringing again into activity and prominence)

Derivation:

regenerate (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

re-formation; regeneration

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

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

Derivation:

regenerate (undergo regeneration)

regenerate (be formed or shaped anew)

regenerate (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

 Context examples 

It is useful for bone repair and bone regeneration.

(Bioactive Glass Product, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissue-specific cadherin glycoproteins are responsible for homophilic calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion likely involved in cell type sorting during morphogenesis, histogenesis, and regeneration.

(Cadherin Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Instead of a typical spike-like structure, the bioreactor treatment resulted in a paddle-like formation closer to a fully formed limb than unaided regeneration could create.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers now hope to understand how the supportive epicardial cells help to drive heart regeneration.

(New stem cell combination could help to repair damaged hearts, University of Cambridge)

The study’s lead investigator, Tom Reh, Ph.D., and his team at UW Medicine in Seattle, looked to the zebrafish for clues about how to encourage regeneration in the mouse eye.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

Regeneration of endothelial cells damaged during chemotherapy may prevent or decrease chemotherapy-induced diarrhea.

(Elsiglutide, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuropoietic Cytokine glycoproteins act with high affinity through specific receptors as local paracrine or autocrine intercellular mediators to regulate neuronal growth, regeneration, survival, and differentiation.

(Neuropoietic Cytokine, NCI Thesaurus)

Family of polypeptide growth factors produced by peripheral target tissues as well as the nervous system, which are critical to neuronal growth, regeneration, survival, and differentiation.

(Neurotrophic Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

NGF plays a role in the repair, regeneration, and protection of neurons, and as such could serve as a therapeutic agent in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

(Nerve Growth Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Epithelial repair requires restitution and regeneration.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)