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What does degeneration mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
  2. (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
  3. (uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
  4. (countable) A thing that has degenerated.
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High levels of antioxidants and zinc significantly reduce the risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration and its associated vision loss.
In 1912, a WD was described as a familial syndrome of progressive lenticular degeneration associated with cirrhosis of the liver.
Clinical trials have not proved any drugs to be effective in preventing or treating atrophic or exudative age-related macular degeneration.
These found that few people with age related macular degeneration experienced improved vision with surgery.
Transsynapptic neuronal degeneration of optic nerves consequent to occipital lobe lesions is a rare phenomenon.
Numerous platelets appeared in the lumen, some of which showed signs of degeneration with swelling and rarefaction.

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