degeneration.
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
Meaning & usage
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
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.
fatty degeneration of the liver
Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
A thing that has degenerated.
Where this word comes from
From French dégénération, from Latin dēgenerātiō.
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