degeneration

Noun

Meaning

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

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.

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

The thing degenerated.

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As expected, the incubation period was shortened by a length comparable with that of scrapie, and, as with scrapie, the mice had the typical spongiform degeneration in their brains. Source: Internet

Any such linking of the economy of a socialist country with the economy of bourgeois or revisionist countries opens the doors to the actions of the economic laws of capitalism and the degeneration of the socialist order. Source: Internet

An important factor that probably hastened his degeneration was the multiplicity of his fairground interpreters. Source: Internet

Degenerative joint disease, such as osteoarthritis or organic degeneration of the articular surfaces, recurrent fibrous or bony ankylosis, developmental abnormality, or pathologic lesions within the TMJ. Source: Internet

A fable of degeneration (shown with brutal precision) and regeneration (not entirely persuasive), the piece alternates ferocious confessional elements with bursts of musical comedy. Source: Internet

But this degeneration is often superficial. Source: Internet

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