Vivification

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act or process of vivificating.

II. Vivification ·noun The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.

III. Vivification ·noun One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, ·etc.