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Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.

an. And on the hither side, or so she looked, Of twenty summers. Tennyson. To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Huxley.

That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

Generation. [Obs.] "Organs of increase." Shak.

Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.

nd beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. Milton. A link among the days, toknit The generations each to each. Tennyson.

Consisting of, or resembling, lard. Lardaceous degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration.

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.…

To be connected. No one generation could link with the other. Burke.

number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoi…

, is TT; a dwarf, being without T, is tt. Crossing these, crossbreeds, Tt, result (called generation F1). In the formation of the germ cells of these crossbreeds a process of segregation occurs such that germ cells, whether male or female, are produced of two kinds, T and t, in equal numbers. The T cells bear the facto…

of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

tes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. Landor.

Resembling mucus. Dunglison. Mucoid degeneration, a form of degeneration in which the tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance resembling mucus. Quain.

er; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation. The increase and multiplication of the world. Thackeray.

part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy. Virchow.

The act of production; generation. [Obs.]

Generatuon by means of ova. See Generation.

e spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.