Degeneration vs Denaturation - What's the difference?
degeneration | denaturation |
(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
The deliberate addition of a noxious substance to alcohol to make it unfit to drink
(biochemistry) The change of folding structure of a protein (and thus of physical properties) caused by heating, changes in pH, or exposure to certain chemicals.
As nouns the difference between degeneration and denaturation
is that degeneration is the process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse while denaturation is the deliberate addition of a noxious substance to alcohol to make it unfit to drink.degeneration
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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