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[ US /dɪˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˌdʒɛnɝˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
- passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
- the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
How To Use degeneration In A Sentence
- He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
- Other races were infantilised or barbarised, or held up as object lessons in the perils of racial degeneration.
- When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
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- One of the common diseases in the eye is abnormal blood vessels that grow in the back of the eye called macular degeneration. CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2009
- Retinal degeneration is more common in myopic eyes but it's not exactly related to macular degeneration.
- Then as now technical progress and terror of social degeneration were two sides of the same process.
- A decade after the accident, he started to experience muscle degeneration in his left leg, until his calf muscle atrophied to the point that his lower leg looked like a straight line. Manifesting Michelangelo
- The differential diagnoses for a cystic lesion in the thyroid region include TDCs and cystic degeneration in neoplasm or goiter.
- It would be another quarter of a century before scientists finally identified Carol’s condition she was suffering from phenylketonuria, or PKU, brain degeneration caused by inability in the newborn child to process a chemical called phenyl, a deficiency that can be treated only if detected in its early stages. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA