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de·gen·er·a·tion    Audio Help   [di-jen-uh-rey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the process of degenerating.
2.the condition or state of being degenerate.
3.Pathology.
a.a process by which a tissue deteriorates, loses functional activity, and may become converted into or replaced by other kinds of tissue.
b.the condition produced by such a process.

[Origin: 1475–85; < LL dégenerātiōn- (s. of dégenerātiō). See de-, generation]
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de·gen·er·a·tion    Audio Help   (dĭ-jěn'ə-rā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The process of degenerating.
  2. The state of being degenerate.
  3. Medicine Gradual deterioration of specific tissues, cells, or organs with corresponding impairment or loss of function, caused by injury, disease, or aging.
  4. Biology The evolutionary decline or loss of a function, characteristic, or structure in an organism or a species.
  5. Electronics Loss of or gain in power in an amplifier caused by unintentional negative feedback.

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degeneration

noun
1. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [ant: development
2. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [syn: degeneracy
3. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form 

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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.
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