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Generation :: Generation (n.) The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..

Rising :: Rising (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..

Pudenda :: Pudenda (n. pl.) The external organs of generation.

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

Systematically :: Systematical (a.) Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration..

Heirloom :: Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations..

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration..

Generation :: Generation (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc..

Perigenesis :: Perigenesis (n.) A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation..

Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..

Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..

Degenerative :: Degenerative (a.) Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

Autogenesis :: Autogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation.

Propagable :: Propagable (a.) Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production..

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