1) Abiotrophia 2) Abiotrophy 3) Breakdown 4) Cataplasia 5) Cataplastic 6) Decadence 7) Decadency 8) Degeneracy 9) Deterioration 10) Devolution 11) Obsolescence 12) Retrogression 13) Weakening
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1) Devolution 2) French word used in English 3) Medical terminology 4) Process 5) The process of degenerating
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Degeneration theory was a widely influential concept in the social and biological sciences in the nineteenth century. It was derived from pre-scientific and erroneous concepts of heredity. Degeneration started as a theory connected with the ethnicities and the origins of the human races. It then (from the 1850s) became popular in psychiatry and cr...
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[Max Nordau] Degeneration (Entartung, 1892), is a book by Max Nordau in which he attacks so-called 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. ==Summary== Nordau begins his work with a `medical` and social interpretation of w...
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[medical] Degeneration is deterioration in the medical sense. Generally, it is the change from a higher to a lower form. More specifically, it is the change of tissue to a lower or less functionally active form. Dorland`s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Twenty-sixth Edition) (ISBN 0-7216-1645-3) ...
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• (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. • (n.) The thing degenerated. • (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type. • (n.)...
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An effect whereby the productivity of a microbial strain used in a commercial process diminishes after repeated transfer from one culture media to another, often caused by genetic mutation. ... (14 Nov 1997) ...
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(de-jen″әr-a´shәn) deterioration; change from a higher to a lower form, especially change of tissue to a less functionally active form. When there is chemical change of the tissue itself, it is true degeneration; when the change consists in the deposit of abnormal matter in the tissues, it is onl...
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De·gen`er·a'tion noun [ Confer French
dégénération .]
1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. « Our
degeneration and apostasy.»
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-jen′ĕr-ā′shŭn Definitions: 1. Deterioration; passing from a higher to a lower level or type. 2. A worsening of mental, physical, or moral qualities. 3. A retrogressive pathologic change in cells or tissues in consequence of which their functions are often impaired or destroyed; sometimes ...
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Degeneration refers to the process by which tissue deteriorates and loses its functional ability due to traumatic injury, aging and wear and tear. While degeneration affects all tissues of the body, the natural degenerative process can particularly affect the vertebral discs and joints of the spine, resulting in chronic back pain.
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Deterioration; change from a higher to lower form, especially as in change to less functional or healthy tissue.
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n] - the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality 2. [n] - passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
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retrogression noun passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
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the process of degenerating. · the condition or state of being degenerate. · · a process by which a tissue deteriorates, loses functional activity, and may become converted into or replaced by other kinds of tissue. · the condition produced by such a process.
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the process of declining from a higher to a lower level
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