Synonyms for degeneration
dɪˌdʒɛn əˈreɪ ʃənde·gen·er·a·tion

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1. degeneration, devolutionnoun

   the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

   Synonyms:
   devolution, decadence, degeneracy, retrogression, decadency, devolvement

2. degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, decadencynoun

   the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

   Synonyms:
   retrogression, devolution, corruption, putrefaction, depravity, degeneracy, depravation, decadency, decadence

3. degeneration, retrogressionnoun

   passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

   Synonyms:
   reversion, retrogression, devolution, regression, degeneracy, decadency, regress, retroversion, decadence

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1. degenerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   degeneracy

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1. degenerationnoun

   Synonyms:
   deterioration, decline, retrogradation, degeneracy, vitiation

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1. List of paraphrases for "degeneration":

   degeneracy, degenerative, decay, degradation

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1. Kapil Bharti:

   Data from 10 to 12 patients is needed to show that the implanted cells are indeed safe, while researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.

2. Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830):

   Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

3. Václav Havel:

   Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

4. Georges Clemenceau:

   America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

5. Hyon Choi:

   As a major natural antioxidant in the body, uric acid has been estimated to account for more than 50 percent of the antioxidant capacity of plasma, with these potentially neuro-protective properties, uric acid has been hypothesized to protect against oxidative stress, a prominent contributor to dopaminergic neuron degeneration in Parkinson's disease, which may also play an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease.