What's the difference between regeneration and regrowth?
Regeneration
Definition:
(n.) The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.
(n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, or of being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart.
(n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as, the regeneration of lost feelers, limbs, and claws by spiders and crabs.
(n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle.
(n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(2) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(3) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
(4) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
(5) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(6) Endogeneous satellite cells in skeletal muscle regenerating from bupivacaine damage were infected with an injected retrovirus containing the Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase gene under the promoter control of the Moloney murine leukemia virus long-terminal repeat.
(7) Electron microscopic radioautography is considered as the most adequate method for studying intracellular regeneration.
(8) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
(9) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(10) These data show that liver regeneration is accompanied by a significant increase in fasting putrescine and spermidine concentrations, which might be biochemical signals of active liver cell regeneration.
(11) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(12) There was a greater chance for the regeneration of a connective tissue attachment in nongrafted intrabony defects than in grafted defects; new cellular cementum formed equally well on old cementum, dentin, or both old cementum and dentin in the same defect.
(13) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
(14) The proliferating cells showing increased hybridization include normal mitotically active crypt epithelium, regenerating epithelium in ulcerative colitis, adenomatous epithelium, and adenocarcinomatous epithelium.
(15) Between the 3rd and 4th week following amputation, the first fully differentiated striated muscle cells appear, and in the 6th week myogenic differentiation extends throughout the regenerate.
(16) Results suggest that nerve regeneration through an autogenous graft is significantly improved by local treatment with triamcinolone acetonide.
(17) Contribution of proliferation and hypertrophy of the epitheliocytes to the growth and regeneration of the rat parathyroid glands was estimated using organo- and cytometry, cytophotometry of DNA content in the nuclei and determination of mitotic index.
(18) Air-regenerated monomers of bovine seminal ribonuclease have been found capable of reassociating into native dimers, whereas monomers refolded in the presence of a glutathione redox mixture do not reassociate into dimers [Smith, K. G., D'Alessio, G. and Schaffer, S. W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2633-2638].
(19) Enhanced regeneration with apoptosis and lysis of the symplasmic nuclei is observed between Day 14 and Day 16.
(20) CoQ10 suppressed the mentioned phenomenon in regenerating liver.
Regrowth
Definition:
(n.) The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this investigation was to find the location and the histological characteristics of cells that were the source of tumour regrowth after single dose irradiation.
(2) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(3) Lymph proliferative disorders with a high mitotic rate, and large tumor burden, regardless of histologic features, should be treated prophylactically against tumor lysis if regrowth between cycles occurs.
(4) Only 1.3% SLS reduced the rate of epithelial healing after three times a day drop application as determined using planar measures of epithelial regrowth.
(5) The kill-kinetic demonstrated that deptomycin had greater activity at all concentrations tested than the other cell wall-active agents; regrowth was seen, however, at lower concentrations.
(6) Tumor regrowth occurred unless the tumor circulation and the adjacent normal tissue circulation were both destroyed.
(7) From a zero baseline, plaque regrowth at day 5 was significantly reduced by chlorhexidine compared to peroxyborate; and, in turn, significantly reduced by peroxyborate compared to the other rinses.
(8) It is advocated that conservative surgery for cholesteatoma be followed up in two years by another elective surgical exploration to check for and dispose of possible cholesteatoma regrowth.
(9) This short time suggests that early axonal regrowth is initiated and controlled at the distal axon.
(10) In order to investigate the molecular basis of this control, we utilized Northern and Western blot techniques to measure changes in the expression of individual genes during the early phase of prostate regrowth.
(11) However, oval window problems such as footplate refixation, perilymph fistula, otosclerotic regrowth, and lateralized oval window membrane in 60% of cases often complicated prosthesis displacement.
(12) There were no significant differences between the two treatment groups in the time to negative culture, time of onset of new hair growth, complete regrowth of hair and time to scalp clearing.
(13) A crucial manifestation of malignant gliomas is the regrowth of already-invaded neoplastic cells after surgical intervention.
(14) With FU and FUR, conditions could be achieved that resulted in complete cell death (no regrowth), but high concentrations and long exposure times were required with FU.
(15) Both clear-cut benign and transitional sebaceous neoplasms should also be recognized as having the potential to undergo an ominous clinical regrowth upon subtotal excision and a complete squamous transformation.
(16) Following axotomy, the regrowth of peripheral axons takes longer in older individuals than in young ones.
(17) Following at LD10 dose of BCNU the surviving clonogenic tumor cells increase in number after latency period of 2 to 4 days; during regrowth the cell doubling time is 40 hours.
(18) Furthermore, the increase in the number of cells in G2 phase correlated with the radiosensitivity of the tumors as assessed by measurements of regrowth delays.
(19) Regrowth of tumor occurred within 60 days of treatment in the responding patients.
(20) Five of the six tumor lines examined showed either no response to MeCCNU or regrowth after an incomplete response.