Crossword clues for degeneration
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]
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The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Our degeneration and apostasy.
--Bates. (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.
(Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
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The thing degenerated. [R.]
Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.
--Sir T. Browne.Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French dégéneration (15c.) or directly from Late Latin degenerationem (nominative degeneratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin degenerare (see degenerate (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse. 2 (context uncountable English) 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. 3 (context uncountable English) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. 4 (context countable English) A thing that has degenerated.
WordNet
n. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality [syn: devolution] [ant: development]
the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities [syn: degeneracy, decadence, decadency]
passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form [syn: retrogression]
Wikipedia
Degeneration'' (Entartung'', 1892), is a book by Max Nordau in which he attacks what he believed to be degenerate art and comments on the effects of a range of social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body.
"Dégénération" (English: "Degeneration") is a 2008 song by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the first single from her seventh studio album Point de Suture, and was released first digitally and on radio in June 2008, then in a CD in August 2008. The song marked an important musical change in the singer's career. Despite cold critical and public reception, the single achieved success, peaking at number one in France on both physical and digital sales charts.
Usage examples of "degeneration".
Peruvians are enslaved by it, and in Colombia whole populations are addicted to it and the process of slow degeneration from its cumulative effects.
One had a pituitary adenoma and the other had spinal cord degeneration.
It appears, then, that progressive degeneration of an organ can be adequately explained by variation with the removal of natural selection, and that it is not necessary or desirable to appeal to any Lamarckian factor of an unexplainable and undemonstrable nature.
Zillner attributed this circumstance to the small size of the wound, atheroma and degeneration of the aorta and slight retraction of the inner coat, together with a possible plugging of the pericardial opening.
They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.
Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.
There is another species of rupture of the heart which is not traumatic, in which the rupture occurs spontaneously, the predisposing cause being fatty degeneration, dilatation, or some other pathologic process in the cardiac substance.
The cavities of the heart were dilated, the walls thin and in advanced stage of fatty degeneration.
In retinitis pigmentosa the peripheral or extramacular portions of the retina are subject to a pigmentary degeneration that renders them insensitive to light, and patients so afflicted are consequently incapable of seeing at night as well as others.
It will intercept those thin, watery discharges which are the result of weakness, degeneration, and putrescent decay of the blood, perpetuated by a low grade of scrofulous inflammation.
Or who shall discover why derivation becomes degeneration, and where and when and how the bastardy befalls?
In the time period that people stopped eating eggs there was an epidemic of a disease called macular degeneration, which makes people lose their sight.
Or perhaps macular degeneration, though glaucoma was perhaps the most likely possibility.
The morbid affections of the womb most likely to induce menorrhagia, are granular ulceration of its mouth and neck, fungous degeneration of its lining membrane, and tumors within that organ.
It produces a thickening and hardening of the membrane lining the heart, and generally causes a retraction, adhesion, and degeneration of some of the valves of the heart, thus bringing on valvular disease.