degeneration
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- n. 退化；[医] 变性；堕落；恶化
英英释意
- 1. the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality
- 2. the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
- 3. passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form