Can a Time Lord regenerate into a child?

From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form. The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
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How long can a Time Lord live in one regeneration?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Can Time Lords choose to regenerate?

Can Time Lords choose there next regenaration. We know only the Sisters of Karn are capable of choosing it with some "Regen-Potion". Well, since Time Lords can change sex when they regenerate I imagine there aren't many distinctions regarding gender. I think for his regenerations, he chooses subconsciously.
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What happens when a Time Lord regenerates?

A Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, meaning after the 13th incarnation, they would truly die. This way, the show could switch leads a good deal of times throughout its run, and leave the problem of what to do when that run is up for the future writers to address.
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Can a Time Lord refuse to regenerate?

There are two instances when a Time Lord refused regeneration, or potentially refusing it as is the second case. The first being The Master when he willingly died to spite the Doctor in Last of the Time Lords. The second was the Fifth Doctor in an audio episode called The Gathering.
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Is Julia Foster going to be the 14th Doctor?

Julia Foster is the 14th Doctor, with Tennant Back as Companion. Veteran actress Julia Foster will replace Jodie Whittaker after she bows out from Doctor Who in this year's festive special. Despite claims to the contrary, Whittaker in fact filmed her final scenes late last year.
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How many regenerations does River song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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Does the Doctor have unlimited regenerations?

He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.
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Are Time Lords possible?

In fact, given the sheer scale of the universe — how big it is, how long the universe will exist for before it dies, land the number of habitable planets — it's fairly likely that Time Lords actually already exist. Or will exist in the future.
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Why was the 10th Doctor regeneration so violent?

The reason is Tenth doctor "didn't want to go". Due to him forcibly regenerating to save his life, the impact of the regeneration caused mass destruction, flames and violence.
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Is Romana dead Doctor Who?

A flashback in the final Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Gallifrey Chronicles suggests that Romana is killed by Faction Paradox skulltroopers just before Gallifrey's destruction.
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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Why did Romana regenerate Doctor Who?

But that's not what was weird (in the context of a show about regenerating Time People, that is). The reason Romana's regeneration was so unique is that the new actress, Lalla Ward, had already played a different role on the series.
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Is the Doctor the oldest Time Lord?

The three oldest Time Lords were Rassilon, Omega, and the other the oldest of them presumably being Rassilon and the other (childhood friends) then Omega their age is unknown but it has subtle hint they say the doctor could be the other reason being in the episode Terror of the Autons of the classic Doctor who you get ...
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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How many times has the Master regenerated?

The short story Girl Power! indicates that the Master had had a total of nineteen incarnations up to, and including Missy. Only instances where the Master has "died" count as regenerations, and not the instances of bodysnatching or undergoing chameleon arch identities.
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How do Time Lords reproduce?

The TL;DR is that in non-screen materials Gallifreyan reproduction is largely aided by cloning-like technology, but that this seems to be contradicted by some on-screen evidence that they reproduce more like we do. At very least cloning is possible, as with the Doctor's daughter.
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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been a Time Lord.
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Are Time Lords born?

Time Lords aren't born, they're crafted. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism, a tear in the fabric of time and space.
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Will there be a 15th Doctor?

Whittaker's time as the Doctor is coming to an end and, according to the BBC, the 15th Doctor will be revealed in "the coming weeks," though a specific date was not provided. It was also revealed that two former Doctor Who companions, Tegan and Ace, will return for Whittaker's final episodes as the 13th Doctor.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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How many lives do Time Lords have?

Time Lords used to have thirteen lives." In Death of the Doctor (a 2010 The Sarah Jane Adventures serial), the Eleventh Doctor says he can regenerate 507 times (early news reports, before the episode was broadcast, suggested he would say there is no limit to the number of regenerations).
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Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord. We've seen her regenerate before.
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Why is River Song backwards?

River Song's Timeline isn't backwards (and neither is the Doctors). Their individual timelines move forward from birth to death (in the loosest sense of the word) but as time travellers they are free to visit any time and space in any order.
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Why does River have Time Lord DNA?

In "A Good Man Goes to War", it is revealed that River is Amy and Rory's daughter Melody (Harrison and Maddison Mortimer), who was conceived in the TARDIS while it was in the Time Vortex and consequently carries Time Lord DNA.
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