A thing that has degenerated.
The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
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.
Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
The act of retroceding; a going back.
The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.
The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.
Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.