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Definition of Degenerated

1. degenerate [v] - See also: degenerate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degenerated

Literary usage of Degenerated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"These degenerated fibres occupy a special position in the peduncle, a part of it which is comparatively free from degenerated fibres on the side of the ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"The degenerated patch occupies the temporal (lower and outer) portion of the ... The degenerated patch, still occupying the lower and outer part of the ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"extreme and all degenerated areas are infiltrated with calcium salts. Whether the vascular changes are due to a primary toxic action of the adrenalin or ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... their satirical wit degenerated into sharp and angry invectives ; and, from the subordinate powers of government, the invective» of the people ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"... who had worn the purple, having perished in the struggle; }iis descendants, greatly degenerated in these days from the excellence of their ancestors, ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... the fact that nerve roots are often degenerated, and in certain instances in the form of discrete patches, and finally degeneration of peripheral nerves ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"A degenerated FAMILY. Dr. Albert Mathieu, in the " Gazette des Hopitaux," gives us a remarkable family history, arranged in tabular form, and showing in a ..."

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