单词 | regeneration |
释义 | regeneration (once / 2170 pages) 1n 2n Regeneration involves remaking something. Your city may plan regeneration efforts to spruce up a riverfront area that has fallen on hard times. Regeneration means "create again," which is what salamanders do when they lose their tails. People find this regeneration fascinating, but even humans experience regeneration when they produce new skin cells to heal wounds and burns. Regeneration is also a religious term that means a "new birth" in which a person changes from sinner to true believer. WORD FAMILYregeneration: regenerations+/generate: generated, generates, generating, generation, generative, generator, regenerate/generated: self-generated/generation: generational, generations/generational: generationally/generator: generators/regenerate: regenerated, regenerates, regenerating, regeneration, unregenerate/regenerated: unregenerated/unregenerate: unregenerately USAGE EXAMPLESThat met Tucker’s primary goal — “relieving pain and improving function. … With that, we frequently get tissue regeneration.” Seattle Times(Dec 11, 2016) “A salamander laughs at that kind of injury,” says James Godwin, an immunologist and regeneration biologist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Nature(Dec 06, 2016) Macrophages, for example, a cell type long identified with chronic inflammation, are necessary for limb regeneration in salamanders. Nature(Dec 06, 2016) 1 1n forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting Syn|Hyper re-formation reconstruction the activity of constructing something again 2n the activity of spiritual or physical renewal Hyper resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification bringing again into activity and prominence 3n (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs 2Hypo|Hyper morphallaxis regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters biological process, organic process a process occurring in living organisms n feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input Syn|Hypo|Hyper positive feedback vicious circle, vicious cycle one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first feedback the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output |
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