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the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

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.

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.

The act, state, or process of growing worse; degeneracy.

1. Deterioration, sinking from a higher to a lower level of type. 2. A worsening of physical or mental qualities. 3. A retrogressive pathological change in cells or tissues in consequence of which the functioning power is lost and the living substance becomes converted into an inert mass.

Change of a part or function to a lower state.

The act, state, or process of degenerating; decline; deterioration.

Degeneracy; deterioration.

Degeneratio, Notheusis, Nothia, from degener, 'unlike one's ancestors, (de, and genua, generis, 'family,') Degeneracy, (F.) Degeneration, Abatardissement. A change for the worse -degradation -in the intimate composition of the solids or fluids of the body. In pathological anatomy, degeneration means the change which occurs in the structure of an organ, when transformed into a matter essentially morbid; as a cancerous, or tubercular, degeneration. Degenerescence is, by the French pathologists, employed synonymously with Degeneration.

Alteration of tissue from a higher to a lower form.

Loss of race characteristics.

A retrogressive change in molecular structure of the cells of a tissue or organ, producing an impairment of function.

n. Act of growing worse, or the state of having become worse;—a decline from former virtue and worth; a gradual deterioration in plants and animals;—the thing that has sunk or fallen from a high estate.

A deviation from the virtue of one’s ancestors; a falling from a more excellent state to one of less worth; the thing changed from its primitive state.