reinnervation

{{Short description|Restoration of nerves}}

Reinnervation is the restoration, either by spontaneous cellular regeneration or by surgical grafting, of nerve supply to a body part from which it has been lost or damaged.{{cite book|title=The Williams Dictionary of Biomaterials|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv45B7P5N3gC&pg=PA273|year=1999|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-734-1|pages=273}}{{cite book|author1=Dawn Freshwater|authorlink1=Dawn Freshwater|author2=Sian Masiln-Prothero|title=Blackwell's Nursing Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hdCCO3a35Y8C&pg=PA514|date=22 May 2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-69090-1|pages=514}}{{cite book|author=Christopher G. Morris|title=Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nauWlPTBcjIC&pg=PA1827|year=1992|publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing|isbn=978-0-12-200400-1|pages=1827}}