renascible
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]renascible (not comparable)
- (archaic) Able to be reproduced.
- 1873, The Missouri Dental Journal, volume 5, page 345:
- Several months since, while conducting an experiment upon capping exposed dental pulps, I discovered what I consider a generous anodyne for sensitiveness and toothache incident to soft white decay. Believing that dentine was to some extent renascible, and knowing that the dental pulp possessed great recuperative powers, I was impressed with the idea that something might be found that, as a local application, would induce the growth of a bony covering over the point of exposure of the pulp, in a comparatively short time.