regeneration

regeneration /re·gen·er·a·tion/ (re-jen″er-a´shun) the natural renewal of a structure, as of a lost tissue or part.

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guided tissue regeneration  treatment of wound tissue using microporous membranes as barriers, so that only specific, desired types of cells can enter the wound and regenerate.

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re·gen·er·a·tion (r-jn-rshn)

n.

Regrowth of lost or destroyed parts or organs.

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regeneration

[rijen′ərā′shən]

the process of repair, reproduction, or replacement of lost or injured cells, tissues, or organs. Also called neogenesis.

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regeneration (rējen´rā´shn),

n the renewal or repair of lost tissue or parts.

regeneration, guided bone (GBR),

n a technique in which a membrane is placed over a bone defect site to encourage new bone growth and direct its formation while preventing other tissues from interfering with osteogenesis.

regeneration, muscle,

n repair of muscle tissue. When surgical intervention or inflammatory disease of dental structures injures the facial and masticatory muscles, two types of repair take place: repair by budding and repair by proliferation.

regeneration, muscle, by budding,

n regeneration that takes place in destructive lesions of muscle, traumatic necrosis, hemorrhage, infarction, and suppurative myositis. The buds consist of undifferentiated plasmodial masses and certain sarcolemma nuclei. The rebuilt architecture is not classic and has bizarre and sometimes fibrous extensions that look like scarred defects.

regeneration, muscle, by proliferation,

n regeneration in degenerating muscles by proliferation of bands of sarcoplasm in which the sarcolemma and its nuclei are preserved.

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regeneration

the natural renewal of a structure, as of a lost tissue or part.