n 1  :  an act or the process of regenerating  :  the state of being regenerated  2  :  the renewal, regrowth, or restoration of a body or a bodily part, tissue, or substance after injury or as a normal bodily process <continual of epithelial cells>  < of the contractile substance of muscle after exercise>  - compare REGULATION2a   .
 
   
 
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