vi :  to send out new growth  :  produce sprouts <a disease in which many motoneurones die and surviving motoneurones poorly -J. R. Sanes> 
, n :  a new outgrowth (as of nerve tissue) resembling the young shoot of a plant <segments of the axon above the injury … produce new s -J. L. Marx>  .
 
 
 
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