self-heal

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All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella [524] or self-heal.

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  1. noun Any of several plants reputed to have healing powers, especially Prunella vulgaris, a creeping Eurasian plant with deep violet-blue, two-lipped flowers. Also called heal-all.

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  • That means you should have run the Acrobat self-heal process, or run an installer for any Adobe product that comes with the Adobe PDF printer. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • "So we began to look at whether we could detect where a line would go down before it goes down and whether we could 'self-heal' it before it goes out," Valocchi said. —  eWeek - RSS Feeds
  • "In a few years self-healing circuits will continue Moore's scaling law by making integrated circuits resemble living organisms in their ability to self-heal and adjust to changes in the environment," Hajimiri says. —  The Register
  • Using tone chimes and crystal bowls, Chicchan creates pure harmonic sounds that can help people to relax and to self-heal. —  northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
  • The description of how the network can self-heal is perhaps particularly apt in a country torn by insurgency. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
 

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