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- Degeneration - n. - 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.
- Degeneration - n. - A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
- Degeneration - n. - The thing degenerated.
- Degeneration - n. - The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
- Degenerationist - n. - A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
- Calcification - n. - The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
- Uroglaucin - n. - A body identical with indigo blue, occasionally found in the urine in degeneration of the kidneys. It is readily formed by oxidation or decomposition of indican.
- Colloid - n. - A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
- Histolytic - a. - Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.
- Degenerationist - n. - A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
- Degeneration - n. - 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.
- Degradation - n. - Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
- Caseation - n. - A degeneration of animal tissue into a cheesy or curdy mass.
- Scrofula - n. - A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
- Atheroma - n. - A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.
- Necrobiosis - n. - The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.
- Wallerian degeneration - - A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.