revivification

The restoration to an effective condition (in which it can again be used to decolorize syrup in sugar-refining) of spent animal charcoal by reheating it in char-kilns, or by washing with hydrochloric acid, submitting to a kind of fermentation, and finally heating in the char-kiln.

Renewal of life; restoration to life; resuscitation.

In chem., the reduction of a metal from a state of combination to its metallic state.

In surgery, the dissection off of the skin or mucous membrane in a part or parts, that by the apposition of surfaces thus prepared union of parts may be secured.

Renewal of life; restoration of life; the act of recalling, or the state of being recalled, to life.