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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.] 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. --Bates. 2. (Physiol.) 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. 3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type 4. The thing degenerated. [R.] Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir T. Browne. {Amyloid degeneration}, {Caseous degeneration}, etc See under {Amyloid}, {Caseous}, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: degeneration n 1: the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality 2: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [syn: {degeneracy}] 3: passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form [syn: {retrogression}]
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