Thesaurus: degeneration

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1. n. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
2. n. 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. n. A class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/gradual">gradual class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/deterioration">deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. n. The thing degenerated.
5. n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
6. n. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
7. n. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
8. 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 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.
9. That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitalityhas become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lowerfor a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
10. n:100 n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality n. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form