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Degeneration

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(1):

(n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.

(2):

(n.) The thing degenerated.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Degeneration'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/degeneration.html. 1828.
 
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