Degeneration

[dɪ,dʒenə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ,dʒɛnə'reʃən]

Definition

(noun.) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form.

(noun.) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.

Typed by Ada--From WordNet

Definition

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

(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.

(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.) The thing degenerated.

Typist: Melba

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Degeneracy.

Edited by Bonita