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

Propagation :: Propagation (n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants..

Age :: Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation..

Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..

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

Amyloid :: Amyloid (n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

Life :: Life (n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms..

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

Increase :: Increase (v. i.) Generation.

Generation :: Generation (n.) That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

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

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) That method of reproduction in which the successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis..

Metagenesis :: Metagenesis (n.) The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation..

Heterogenesis :: Heterogenesis (n.) Spontaneous generation, so called..

Vermination :: Vermination (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin.

Histolytic :: Histolytic (a.) Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues..

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

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..

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..

Aggeneration :: Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.

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