reinnervate
Targeted muscle reinnervation takes nerves from an amputated limb and reroutes them into new areas of muscle.
The fact that the patient experienced angina implies re-innervation of the transplanted heart.
She had a reinnervation procedure in which a functioning nerve was attached to the nerve leading to the vocal cord.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The brain & nervous system
abducens nerve
abducent nerve
accessory nerve
alexithymia
allism
glossopharyngeal nerve
grey matter
hemispheric
hemispherical
hindbrain
neurofibrillary
neurogenic
neurogenically
neuroglia
neuroglial
reticular formation
rhinencephalon
rhombencephalon
right brain
right-brained