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 amyloid degeneration 名詞
 澱粉樣變性

 am·y·loid n.
 1. A starchlike substance.
 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
 Amyloid degeneration Med., Same as amyloidosis; -- called also waxy degeneration or  lardaceous degeneration.
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 De·gen·er·a·tion n.
 1. The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
    Our degeneration and apostasy.   --Bates.
 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.
 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.
 4. The thing degenerated. [R.]
    Cockle, aracus, . . . and other degenerations.   --Sir T. Browne.
 Amyloid degeneration, Caseous degeneration, etc. See under Amyloid, Caseous, etc.
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