Associations to the word «Degeneration»
Noun
- Retina
- Axon
- Cataract
- Sclerosis
- Dementia
- Blindness
- Ganglion
- Parkinson
- Cartilage
- Neuron
- Regeneration
- Apoptosis
- Cns
- Progressive
- Cyst
- Dysfunction
- Lesion
- Inflammation
- Abnormality
- Dopamine
- Arthritis
- Nerve
- Paralysis
- Deterioration
- Swelling
- Rp
- Pathology
- Anemia
- Syndrome
- Tendon
- Disease
- Als
- Deficiency
- Impairment
- Degenerate
- Diabetes
- Liver
- Cord
- Neu
- Vitamin
- Tissue
- Lobe
- Sheath
- Aging
- Conduction
- Hemorrhage
- Pigment
- Deformity
- Mri
- Disorder
- Retardation
- Cortex
- Malnutrition
- Tremor
- Kidney
- Accumulation
- Epilepsy
- Trauma
- Lymphoma
- Mutation
- Collagen
- Transplantation
- Onset
- Phenotype
- Joint
Wiktionary
DEGENERATION, noun. (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
DEGENERATION, noun. (uncountable) 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.
DEGENERATION, noun. (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
DEGENERATION, noun. (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
Dictionary definition
DEGENERATION, noun. The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality.
DEGENERATION, noun. The state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities.
DEGENERATION, noun. Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.