Degeneration vs Caseation - What's the difference?
degeneration | caseation |
(uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
* 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible ,
(uncountable) 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.
(uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
(countable) A thing that has degenerated.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(pathology) A necrotic degeneration of tissue to a cheese-like condition
As nouns the difference between degeneration and caseation
is that degeneration is degeneration, morbidity while caseation is (pathology) a necrotic degeneration of tissue to a cheese-like condition.degeneration
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- cockle, aracus, and other degenerations