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degeneration
noun(de-gen-er-a-tion)degenerate condition
degeneration
noun(de-gen-er-a-tion)a lowering of effective power, vitality, or essential quality to an enfeebled and worsened kind or state
degeneration
noun(de-gen-er-a-tion)intellectual, moral, or artistic decline
degeneration
noun(de-gen-er-a-tion)macular degeneration that affects the elderly in either a slowly progressing form marked especially by the accumulation of yellow deposits in and thinning of the macula or in a rapidly progressing form marked by scarring produced by bleeding and fluid leakage below the macula —abbreviation AMD
degeneration
noun(de-gen-er-a-tion)progressive deterioration of the macula resulting in a gradual loss of the central part of the visual field; especially : age-related macular degeneration