DEGENERATION
\dɪd͡ʒˌɛnəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], \dɪdʒˌɛnəɹˈeɪʃən], \d_ɪ_dʒ_ˌɛ_n_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DEGENERATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
By Princeton University
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the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
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A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
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The thing degenerated.
By Oddity Software
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That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
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A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
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The thing degenerated.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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Degeneratio, Notheusis, Nothia, from degener, 'unlike one's ancestors, (de, and genua, generis, 'family,') Degeneracy, (F.) Degeneration, Abatardissement. A change for the worse -degradation -in the intimate composition of the solids or fluids of the body. In pathological anatomy, degeneration means the change which occurs in the structure of an organ, when transformed into a matter essentially morbid; as a cancerous, or tubercular, degeneration. Degenerescence is, by the French pathologists, employed synonymously with Degeneration.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Loss of race characteristics.
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A retrogressive change in molecular structure of the cells of a tissue or organ, producing an impairment of function.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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