| degrade | 1. To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank' to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. "Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar." (Palfrey) 2. To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. "O miserable mankind, to what fall Degraded, to what wretched state reserved!" (Milton) "He pride . . . Struggled hard against this degrading passion." (Macaulay) 3. <geology> To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. Synonym: To abase, demean, lower, reduce. See Abase. Origin: F. Degrader, LL. Degradare, fr. L. De- + gradus step, degree. See Grade, and cf. Degree. <biology> To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| degraded | 1. Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base. "The Netherlands . . . Were reduced practically to a very degraded condition." (Motley) 2. <biology> Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts. "Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons." (Dana) 3. [Cf. F. Degre step. Having steps; said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; termed also on degrees. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| degraded wetland | <ecology> A wetland which has been altered by man through impairment of some physical property and in which the alteration has resulted in a reduction of biological complexity in terms of species diversity of wetland-associated species which previously existed in the wetland areas. (09 Oct 1997) |
| degranulation | Release of secretory granule contents by fusion with the plasma membrane. (18 Nov 1997) |
| degree | 1. A step, stair, or staircase. "By ladders, or else by degree." (Rom. Of R) 2. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison. 3. The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. "A dame of high degree." . "A knight is your degree." . "Lord or lady of high degree." 4. Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree. "The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places." (Sir. J. Reynolds) 5. Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc. In the United States diplomas are usually given as the evidence of a degree conferred. In the humanities the first degree is that of bachelor of arts (B. A. Or A. B); the second that of master of arts (M. A. Or A. M). The degree of bachelor (of arts, science, divinity, law, etc) is conferred upon those who complete a prescribed course of undergraduate study. The first degree in medicine is that of doctor of medicine (M. D). The degrees of master and doctor are sometimes conferred, in course, upon those who have completed certain prescribed postgraduate studies, as doctor of philosophy (Ph. D); but more frequently the degree of doctor is conferred as a complimentary recognition of eminent services in science or letters, or for public services or distinction (as doctor of laws (LL. D) or doctor of divinity (D. D), when they are called honorary degrees. "The youth attained his bachelor's degree, and left the university." (Macaulay) 5. A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. "In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law." (Hallam) 7. <mathematics> Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees. 8. <mathematics> State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a^2b^2c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax^4 + bx^2 = c, and mx^2y^2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree. 9. <mathematics> A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. 10. A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer. 11. A line or space of the staff. The short lines and their spaces are added degrees. Accumulation of degrees. <geometry> On the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles. Degree of longitude, the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles. To a degree, to an extreme; exceedingly; as, mendacious to a degree. "It has been said that Scotsmen . . . Are . . . Grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess." (Prof. Wilson) Origin: F. Degre, OF. Degret, fr. LL. Degradare. See Degrade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| degrees of freedom | In statistics, the number of independent comparisons that can be made between the members of a sample (e.g., subjects, test items and scores, trials, conditions); in a contingency table it is on e less than the number of row categories multiplied by one less than the number of column categories. (05 Mar 2000) |
| degu | <zoology> A small South American rodent (Octodon Cumingii), of the family Octodontidae. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| degustation | <physiology> Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. Origin: L. Degustatio: cf. F. Degustation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| degenerative |
(of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function; "degenerative diseases of old age"
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| degenerative pannus |
pannus degenerati
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| deglobulinization crisis |
a condition observed in congenital spherocytic anemia, characterized clinically by the acute onset of fever, abdominal pain, and vomiting, associated with reticulocytopenia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, and erythroblastopenia.
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| deglutition murmur |
one heard over the esophagus during the act of swallowing.
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| degree |
In music theory, a scale degree is the name of a particular note of a scale in relation to the tonic, indicating its diatonic function. Scale degrees may be identified several ways:* First, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh* Roman numerals, especially when identifying a triad whose root is that scale degree (see Chord symbol)* Arabic numerals (1,2,3... ...
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| DEG | reduce in worth, character, etc. |
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| DEG | lowered in value |
| DEG | unrestrained by convention or morality |
| DEG | a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) |
| DEG | used of conduct |
| DEG | harmful to the mind or morals |
| DEG | a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality |
| DEG | the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime) |
| DEG | the highest power of a term or variable |
| DEG | an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study |
| DEG | a measure for arcs and angles |
| DEG | a unit of temperature on a specified scale |