degeneration

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.

   “The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.”

2. isim 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”

3. isim Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
4. isim A thing that has degenerated.

   “cockle, aracus, […] and other degenerations”