Usually means: Impaired or defective generative biological processes.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dysgenesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. dysgenesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dysgenesis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dysgenesis: Vocabulary.com
  5. dysgenesis: Wordnik
  6. dysgenesis: Wiktionary
  7. dysgenesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. dysgenesis: Dictionary.com
  9. Dysgenesis (embryology), Dysgenesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dysgenesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dysgenesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dysgenesis: Rhymezone
  13. Dysgenesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dysgenesis: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dysgenesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. dysgenesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. dysgenesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dysgenesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dysgenesis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dysgenesis: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dysgenesis)

▸ noun:  (medicine) Defective development.

Similar:
dysontogenesis, dysembryogenesis, dysostosis, dysmorphogenesis, maldevelopment, dysplasia, hemiagenesis, dyspoiesis, dysmegakaryocytopoiesis, dyshemopoiesis, more...

Opposite:
eugenic, genesis, procreation, creation, origin

Types:
aplasia, agenesia, hypoplasia, dysplasia, more...

Phrases:
Gonadal dysgenesis, hybrid dysgenesis, ovarian dysgenesis, testicular dysgenesis, thyroid dysgenesis, more...

Adjectives:
gonadal, mixed, ovarian, pure, cortical, hybrid, cerebral, reticular, renal, epiphyseal, seminiferous

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Similar:
dysontogenesis, dysembryogenesis, dysostosis, dysmorphogenesis, maldevelopment, dysplasia, hemiagenesis, dyspoiesis, dysmegakaryocytopoiesis, dyshemopoiesis, more...

Opposite:
eugenic, genesis, procreation, creation, origin

Types:
aplasia, agenesia, hypoplasia, dysplasia, more...

Phrases:
Gonadal dysgenesis, hybrid dysgenesis, ovarian dysgenesis, testicular dysgenesis, thyroid dysgenesis, mixed gonadal dysgenesis, seminiferous tubule dysgenesis, testicular dysgenesis syndrome, more...

Adjectives:
gonadal, mixed, ovarian, pure, cortical, hybrid, cerebral, reticular, renal, epiphyseal, seminiferous



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