renervate

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ nerve +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

renervate (third-person singular simple present renervates, present participle renervating, simple past and past participle renervated)

1. (transitive) To restore nerve stimulation to.
   • 2006, Claude G. Wasterlain, David M. Treiman, Status Epilepticus: Mechanisms and Management, page 441:

     Subsequently, studies by Lugaro (104), Ramón y Cajal (161), Van Harrelveld (202), Edds (49), and Hoffman (72) provided anatomic and physiologic evidence that intact fibers from partially cut peripheral nerves can generate axon sprouts that renervate muscles.

   • 2012, William J. MacLennan, Norman R. Peden, Metabolic and Endocrine Problems in the Elderly:

     Initially, surviving neurones compensate for this by producing axon branches to renervate denervated muscle fibres.

2. (intransitive) (of a body part) To regain nerve stimulation.
   • 1982, Albert Vincent Godefridus Bruschke, Gerard Herpen, Frans E. E. Vermeulen, Coronary Artery Disease Today, page 90:

     In addition to that, Dr. Shumway would tell you that hearts tend to renervate after six months.

3. (obsolete) To have one's strength to return.

Related terms

• denervate
• enervate
• innervate