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'''RejuvenatsJuvenats''' or {{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1c}}{{Fn|2}}, rarely named '''juvenatsRejuvenats''' are {{Fn|1b}} - any of a number of anti-aging ageing treatment used by the [[Imperium]] for the extension of mortal [[human]] life, ranging from plastic maintained primarily through the use of juvenat-drugs but supplemented with augmetic surgery to advanced gene editing that allows maintain the youthful look.{{Fn|1a}} Among the wealthy of the Imperial society it extends the lifespan to the point when being just shy of two centuries of additional lifeold is considered an early middle-age.{{citethisFn|1c}} Common among  The treatment is known to be able to replenish the entirety of a damaged body, for example if utterly annihilated in an accident, if at least the brain is intact. Although it is noted that the recovery from such a state takes something between 2 and 3 [[terra]]n years (9 [[Noble House|noblefenris]] citizens ian months).{{Fn|2}} ==Overview== Among the cheapest and more widely available treatments, there are known practices of: plumping flesh with collagenics; filling creases and wrinkles with dermics, cleaning of eyes and organs, applying a skinweave that pins up the skin folds, resculpting of bones or permanent staining of a skin a tanned colour with nanotic pigments considered in the [[Imperium as presenting as a mark of health.{{Fn|2}} On the other hand, to the wealthiest there is an availability of gene therapies, skeleto-muscular grafts, implants, skin underweaves, transfixes, and stem-splices. The extreme juvenat treatment can replace the entirety of the body of Man]] a subject wtih mineral bonding and important figures like bone grafts to reconstitute a new skeleton, resleeved in a musculature gene-copied from the subject's code, reinforced with [[Gregor Eisenhornplastek]]weaves and polymers, some with all organs replaced with similarly gene-copied transplants.{{Fn|2}} Some treatments are known to work even on [[Xenosxenos]] like the [[T'au]].{{Fn|2}}{{citethis3}}. While they are effective at greatly expanding one's life, they ultimately fail to prevent eventual death.{{Fn|14}}{{Fn|Dubious wording}}
==See Also==
==Sources==
*1: [[Eisenhorn (Omnibus)]]:**{{Endn|11a}}: [[Malleus (Novel)]], Chapter One**{{Endn|1b}}: [[Belisarius CawlMalleus (Novel)]], Chapter Fourteen**{{Endn|1c}}: The Great Work [[Hereticus (Novel)]] - , Chapter 1One*{{Endn|2}}: [[Prospero Burns (Novel)]], Part One, Chapter Four*{{Endn|3}}: [[Fire Caste (Novel)]], Chapter Eight, Chapter Sixteen*{{Endn|4}}: [[Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work (Novel)]] - Chapter 1**{{Endn|Dubious wording}}: From the way it is worded in the article, it is unknown, if it means that the juvenat treatment allows for indefinite sustaining of life but doesn't save from a tragic death (which still conflicts with a source when juvenat treatment saves someone from nigh total body anihilation), or does it mean that inexorably people reach an unspecified old age when it's impossible to maintain prolonged life any longer. Necessitates to check the source material.  
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