Deterioration or degeneration of an organ, secretion, tissue, etc.
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| 释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > degeneration (15) depravation1661 Deterioration or degeneration of an organ, secretion, tissue, etc. cretification1849 Deposition of salts of lime in a tissue of the animal body; calcareous degeneration. histolysis1853 The degeneration or dissolution of tissue, (in later use) esp. as a process in invertebrate metamorphosis. Also figurative. steatosis1860 Fatty degeneration. cretifaction1873 = cretification, n. fibrosis1873 The development in an organ of excessive fibrous tissue; fibroid degeneration. hyalinosis1876 Hyaline degeneration: see hyaline, adj. fibrosing1879 sarcomatosis1890 Sarcomatous degeneration. tyrosis1896 Cheesy degeneration: = caseation, n. 2. hyaline degeneration1897 Resembling glass, transparent as glass, glassy, crystalline, vitreous. (Chiefly technical.) hyaline cartilage, ordinary cartilage, as distinguished… amyloidosis1900 Amyloid degeneration. pseudoxanthoma1900 (in full pseudoxanthoma elasticum) a genetic disorder of elastic tissue leading to the formation of soft, yellowish papules and plaques in the… blastophthoria1908 The hypothetical degeneration of germ cells caused by chronic poisoning as from alcoholism or other diseases. hyalinization1919 A change of tissue into a homogeneous, translucent, often firm, mass somewhat resembling glass under the microscope; hyaline degeneration. |
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