Medical Dictionary

degeneracy

noun de·gen·er·a·cy \di-ˈjen-(ə-)rə-sē\
plural de·gen·er·a·cies

Medical Definition of DEGENERACY

1
:  the state of being degenerate
2
:  the process of becoming degenerate
3
:  sexual perversion
4
:  the coding of an amino acid by more than one codon of the genetic code

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