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Type Words
Synonyms retrogression
Type of transmutation, shift, transformation
Has types abiotrophy, cataplasia
Type Words
Synonyms decadence, decadency, degeneracy
Type of abasement, degradation, abjection
Derivation degenerate
Type Words
Synonyms devolution
Type of process, physical process
Has types macular degeneration, attack, obsolescence
Derivation degenerate

Examples of degeneration

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For example, if a parent had macular degeneration, could that be in your future?
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Degeneration in her spinal column has left her stooped and unsteady on her feet.
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The book, a look at the degeneration of the Mideast conflict, comes out Tuesday.
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Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
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The TV has helped towards the degeneration of family values, lowering standards.
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He has advanced macular degeneration and is for all intents and purposes, blind.
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Exercise and nutrition throughout the rest of the life delays bone degeneration.
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Studies also have focused on the role of glutamate in motor neuron degeneration.
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People who have retinal degeneration lose the use of their photoreceptor cells.
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More examples
  • The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
  • Degeneracy: the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
  • Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
  • (degenerative) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function; "degenerative diseases of old age"
  • "Du00E9gu00E9nu00E9ration" (English: "Degeneration") is a 2008 song by French singer-songwriter Mylu00E8ne Farmer. It was the first single from her seventh studio album Point de Suture, and was released first digitally and on radio in June 2008, then in a CD in August 2008. The song marked an important musical change in the singer's career...
  • The idea of degeneration had significant influence on science, art and politics from the 1850s to the 1950s. The social theory developed consequently from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. ...
  • In common parlance, "devolution", "de-evolution", or backward evolution is the notion that a species can change into a more "primitive" form. ...
  • In mathematics, a degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as to belong to another, usually simpler, class.
  • Degeneration (Entartung, 1892), was Max Nordau's major work. It is a moralistic attack on so-called degenerate art, as well as a polemic against the effects of a range of the rising social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body.