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nounpassing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
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nounthe state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
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nounthe process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
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- caldwell United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987)
- atrophy any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
- withering any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
- amd macular degeneration that is age-related
- dysgenics the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced
- age-related macular degeneration macular degeneration that is age-related
- cell death (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
- cacogenic pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced
- tabes dorsalis syphilis of the spinal cord characterized by degeneration of sensory neurons and stabbing pains in the trunk and legs and unsteady gait and incontinence and impotence
- locomotor ataxia syphilis of the spinal cord characterized by degeneration of sensory neurons and stabbing pains in the trunk and legs and unsteady gait and incontinence and impotence