(pathology) The degeneration of cellular tissue to form a mass of glassy, homogenous material

(medicine) A process that results when a nerve fiber is cut or crushed, in which the part of the axon separated from the neuron's cell body degenerates distal to the injury.

plural of hyaline degeneration

Synonym of Wilson's disease

(physics) matter which has sufficiently high density that the dominant contribution to its pressure arises from the Pauli exclusion principle.

Alternative form of nondegenerate

plural of degenerate conic

(mathematics) A conic section that is reducible as the union of two lines.

(biology, historical) One who believes in the theory of degenerationism.

plural of degenerationist