REGENERATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regenerating mean? 

• REGENERATING (adjective)
  The adjective REGENERATING has 1 sense:

1. that are generating anew

  Familiarity information: REGENERATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGENERATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That are generating anew

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

regenerating fibers

Participle:

regenerate (form or produce anew)

 Context examples 

Would not a life devoted to the task of regenerating your race be well spent?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A non-neoplastic, regenerating hepatocellular hyperplasia, secondary to the presence of focal vascular abnormalities in the liver.

(Focal Nodular Hyperplasia of the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhibiting Stat3 in the regenerating muscles of aged mice accelerated tissue repair.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

Cells within an injured mouse eye can be coaxed into regenerating neurons and those new neurons appear to integrate themselves into the eye’s circuitry, new research shows.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

The regenerating limbs of the bioreactor-treated frogs were thicker with more developed bones, innervation, and vascularization.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Implantable devices which convert biological energy (chemical energy of the metabolism of continuously regenerating body fluids or mechanical energy of periodic movements) to electrical energy.

(Bioelectric Energy Sources, NCI Thesaurus)

This study moves research a step further towards the development of blood regeneration therapies, but the researchers believe it is also applicable to a variety of cells and will yield insights about regenerating diseased or damaged tissues.

(Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behavior of stem cells, National Institutes of Health)