Degeneration

What do we mean by degeneration?

The process of degenerating. noun

The state of being degenerate. noun

Gradual deterioration of specific tissues, cells, or organs with corresponding impairment or loss of function, caused by injury, disease, or aging. noun

The evolutionary decline or loss of a function, characteristic, or structure in an organism or species. noun

Loss of or gain in power in an amplifier caused by unintentional negative feedback. noun

A progressive departure of a family from the normal condition: shown in the first generation by a nervous temperament, moral depravity, and excesses; in the second by tendency to apoplexy and severe neuroses frequently with alcoholism; in the third by mental derangement, suicide, and intellectual weakness; and in the fourth by hereditary imbecility, deformities, arrested development, and sterility. noun

In geology, disintegration produced by weathering. noun

Wallerian degeneration proceeding in a direction from the periphery toward the center. noun

A loss or impairment of the qualities peculiar to the race or kind, or to a type; reduction to a lower type in some scale of being. noun

Specifically Loss or impairment of natural or proper qualities; descent to an inferior state; the act of becoming or the state of having become inferior, especially with respect to moral qualities. noun

In physiology, any process by which a tissue or substance becomes replaced by some other regarded as less highly organized, less complex in composition, of inferior physiological rank, or less suited for the performance of its original functions. noun

A degenerate animal or plant; an organism of a degraded type. noun

The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. noun

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. noun

A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. noun

The thing degenerated. noun

See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc. noun

The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse. noun

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. noun

The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.

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.

Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

A thing that has degenerated.

Words that are spelled similarly to degeneration:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word degeneration:
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Words that rhyme with degeneration:
communication, information, operation, education, implication, station, innovation, organization, application, foundation, consideration, accommodation, association, relation, connotation, aberration, corporation, aspiration, orientation, remuneration, consternation, correlation, alliteration, administration, trepidation, obligation, discrimination, generation, reconciliation, inspiration, situation, revelation, evaluation, determination, civilization, nation, vacation, collaboration, radiation, motivation, integration, abomination, precipitation, appreciation, gentrification, dissertation, collocation, designation, interpretation, compensation, ramification, conversation, configuration, proliferation, expectation, manifestation, indignation, litigation, cooperation, notation, inclination, pronunciation, anticipation, deviation, implementation, approbation, sensation, altercation, constellation, affirmation, remediation, reputation, transportation, vocation, obfuscation, representation, medication, transformation, translation, conservation, adaptation, presentation, population, conflagration, reservation, dedication, citation, salvation, rehabilitation, location, meditation, preparation, observation, segregation, articulation, variation, abbreviation, quotation, edification, mitigation.

Adjectives that are often used to describe degeneration:
macular, cystic, related, malignant, retinal, progressive, hyaline, amyloid, axonal, moral, granular, secondary, neuronal, hepatolenticular, senile, physical, pigmentary, retrograde, extensive, hydropic, primary, cerebellar, corticobasal, mucoid, severe, complete, myxomatous, acute, calcareous, myocardial, cellular, rapid, waxy, cerebral, chronic, vacuolar, wallerian, joint, lenticular, gradual, sarcomatous, racial, selective, focal, induced, subsequent, hereditary, peripheral, mental, fatty, widespread, neurofibrillary, spinocerebellar, arterial, diffuse, subacute, parenchymatous, fibrinoid, cortical, advanced, cystoid, caseous, tubular, spongy, slow, medial, fibrous, granulovacuolar, spinal, atheromatous, marked, marginal, partial, nuclear, muscular, paraneoplastic, terminal, carcinomatous, cancerous, alcoholic, neural, basophilic, basal, nervous, slight, cheesy, renal, vascular, familial, transneuronal, epithelial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective degeneration:
theory, regeneration, complementation.

Words that sound like degeneration:
degeneration, degenerating, regeneration, cogeneration, new generation, my generation, divination, delineation, digitation, dignation, degenerate, dejection, origination, deceleration, degeneracy, desaturation, dementation, denervation.