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Webster 1913 Edition
Dysgenesis
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Dys-gen′e-sis
,Noun.
[Pref.
dys-
+ genesis
.] (Biol.)
A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.
Definition 2024
dysgenesis
dysgenesis
English
Noun
dysgenesis (plural dysgeneses)
- (medicine) Defective development
- 1989, Raymond Adams & Maurice Victor, Principles of Neurology, ISBN 0070003009, page 980:
- Down Syndrome (Mongolism) Described first in 1866 by Langdon Down, this is the best known of the chromosomal dysgeneses.
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Derived terms
- dysgenetic, dysgenetically
- gonadal dysgenesis