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Cirrhotic :: Cirrhotic (a.) Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.

Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another..

Epigenesis :: Epigenesis (n.) The theory of generation which holds that the germ is created entirely new, not merely expanded, by the procreative power of the parents. It is opposed to the theory of evolution, also to syngenesis..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..

Encasement :: Encasement (n.) An old theory of generation similar to embo/tement. See Ovulist.

Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration..

Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..

Accrementition :: Accrementition (n.) The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds..

Prolification :: Prolification (n.) The generation of young.

Zooid :: Zooid (n.) An animal in one of its inferior stages of development, as one of the intermediate forms in alternate generation..

Tritozooid :: Tritozooid (n.) A zooid of the third generation in asexual reproduction.

Geniture :: Geniture (n.) Generation; procreation; birth.

Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..

Seed :: Seed (n.) Race; generation; birth.

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.

Purulency :: Purulency (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself..

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