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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
amyloidosis \am`y*loi*do"sis\ ([a^]m`[i^]*loi*d[=o]"s[i^]s), n.
   (Med.)
   A disorder characterized by deposit of extracellular
   amyloid[2] in organs or tissues in an amount that interferes
   with normal function of the affected organ; it is often
   secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or
   multiple myeloma. Called also amyloid degeneration waxy
   degeneration and lardaceous degeneration.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
amyloid \am"y*loid\ ([a^]m"[i^]*loid), n.
   1. A starchlike substance.
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   2. (Med.) Any of a group of diverse starchlike glycoproteins
      deposited in the organs under some pathological
      conditions, such as amyloidosis; they are composed of
      linear nonbranching fibrils when viewed under the electron
      microscope. --Stedman 25
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   Amyloid degeneration (Med.), Same as amyloidosis; --
      called also waxy degeneration or lardaceous
      degeneration.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Degeneration \De*gen`er*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F.
   d['e]g['e]n['e]ration.]
   1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having
      become worse; decline; degradation; debasement;
      degeneracy; deterioration.
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            Our degeneration and apostasy.        --Bates.
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   2. (Physiol.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which
      its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a
      substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure;
      as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
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   3. (Biol.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of
      any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or
      organs; hereditary degradation of type.
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   4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
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            Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations. --Sir
                                                  T. Browne.
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   Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See
      under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.
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