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Degenerative   /dɪdʒˈɛnərətɪv/   Listen
Degenerative

adjective
1.
(of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function.



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"Degenerative" Quotes from Famous Books



... assimilate more feebly and grow more slowly, unless chance streams of nutriment help them to recover themselves. But, as will presently be shown, a change of direction cannot take place at every stage of the degenerative process. If a certain critical stage of downward progress be passed, even favourable conditions of food-supply will no longer suffice permanently to change the direction of the variation. Only two cases are conceivable; ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel
... canines, and four molars in each jaw. Since Huxley wrote, a large bulk of additional work upon teeth has been published, and we now know that man and the anthropoid apes display the same kind of degenerative specialisation in their jaws. Simpler and older forms of mammals had a much larger number of teeth, and these differed among themselves more than the teeth of the higher forms. In the Anthropoids and Man, the jaws are proportionately shorter ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell


Words linked to "Degenerative" :   chronic, degenerative disorder, degenerate


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