re·gen·er·a·tion
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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