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Definitions for: Degeneration
[n] passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
[n] the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
[n] the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
Webster (1913) Definition: De*gen`er*a"tion, n. [Cf. F.
d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]
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 organ 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.
Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy, devolution, retrogression
Antonyms: development, evolution
See Also: abasement, abiotrophy, abjection, attack, cataplasia, degradation, obsolescence, process, shift, transformation, transmutation
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