reanimation.

The restoration of life, consciousness, or active vitality to something apparently lifeless or inactive.

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Words that belong together

• reanimation of tissue
• a reanimation experiment

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The reanimation experiment produced movement before it produced any sign of awareness.

No one agreed whether the reanimation restored the person or only the tissue.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural reanimations for distinct instances. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.