to restore a lost nerve supply to (a muscle, nerve, etc) by surgery or regeneration
Examples of 'reinnervate' in a sentence
reinnervate
Reinnervation occurs when nearby functioning motor units send out terminal axon sprouts to reinnervate the damaged muscle fibers.
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