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Engendrure :: Engendrure (n.) The act of generation.

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

Pudic :: Pudic (a.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

Traducianism :: Traducianism (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism..

Unregeneration :: Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.

Regenerative :: Regenerative (a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences..

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) A bud produced in generation by gemmation.

Homogenesis :: Homogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis..

Heterogenist :: Heterogenist (n.) One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis..

Procreation :: Procreation (n.) The act of begetting; generation and production of young.

Stem :: Stem (n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) Succeeding generations; future times.

Degeneration :: Degeneration (n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type..

Wallerian Degeneration :: Wallerian degeneration () A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850..

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..

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The union of parts which have been severed, so that they become anatomically perfect; as, the regeneration of a nerve..

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

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

Product :: Product (n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain..

Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..

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