reinnervatev.
/ˌriːˈɪnəːveɪt/, /ˌriːˈɪnəveɪt/, /ˌriːɪˈnəːveɪt/, U.S. /ˌriˈɪnərˌveɪt/, /ˌriᵻˈnərˌveɪt/ Surgery and Physiology.
transitive. To provide with a new nerve supply, by natural regeneration or by surgical means.
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1872 D. H. Tuke Illustr. Infl. Mind upon Body xvii. 148 In disease it may restore the functions which it takes away in health, re-innervating the sensory and motor nerves.
1912 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 202 145 The muscles to be re-innervated were in different stages of degeneration.
1945 Q. Rev. Biol. 20 318/1 The nerve fibers normally supplying one set of muscles were made to reinnervate not only their original muscles but..their antagonist muscle group as well.
1982 R. Hinde Ethology ix. 174 It would seem that early section of one hypoglossus leads the CNS to discard the operated nerve as an instrument of vocal control even if that nerve regrows and reinnervates the syrinx.
2000 Jrnl. Bone & Joint Surg. 82A 652 The second free muscle, transferred to restore finger flexion, is reinnervated by the fifth and sixth intercostal nerves.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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