reinnervationn.

1880 Practitioner 24 357 Electricity may assist nature in the process of regeneration, and in that of ‘re-innervation’.

1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 217 A partial reinnervation of the same co-ordinated group of muscles.

1942 Q. Rev. Biol. 17 190/2 After reinnervation the action of these limbs was studied by means of slow-motion pictures.

1960 Proc. Royal Soc. 1959–60 B. 151 561 A nerve crush, where the denervation may only last for about 3 weeks and is followed by virtually complete reinnervation, causes a smaller diminution of growth.

1996 Neurosci. Lett. 207 87/2 It may be expected that non-specific reinnervations occur.

2007 Guardian 2 Feb. 9/2 In a process they call targeted muscle reinnervation, they remove the nerves from certain muscles in the chest and transfer into them instead the remnants of nerves that would have run down the arm.