Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Defective or abnormal development of an organ, especially of the gonads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Difficulty in breeding; difficult generation; sterility; infecundity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form of homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.
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- noun medicine Defective development
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun infertility between hybrids
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rather, they favor policies that will stop some suffering in the short run but which will cause dysgenesis.
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Other conditions are less concrete: among those patients with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome, androgen biosynthetic defects and incomplete gonadal dysgenesis, approximately 25% go on to suffer dissatisfaction with their assigned gender.
It's Easier to make a Hole than a Pole Zoe Brain 2008
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Despite this, Murray and Herrnstein argue that dysgenesis is lowering the national IQ by about one point per generation.
Iq 2008
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The scientific term for such a trend is "" dysgenesis, '' and Murray and Herrnstein take it very seriously.
Iq 2008
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For example, SINES and LINES can cause insertional mutagenesis, hybrid dysgenesis, chromosomal rearrangements, etc.
Junk DNA, Junk Science, and The Onion Test - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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This will certainly benefit many Intersexed women with vaginal dysgenesis and other conditions where they have ovaries, but not the complete reproductive system.
Good News For Some Zoe Brain 2006
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Natal women with vaginal dysgenesis or having had reconstruction after radical sugery have the same problem.
Archive 2006-11-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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Natal women with vaginal dysgenesis or having had reconstruction after radical sugery have the same problem.
Gosh Zoe Brain 2006
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This will certainly benefit many Intersexed women with vaginal dysgenesis and other conditions where they have ovaries, but not the complete reproductive system.
Archive 2006-10-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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Dick and I say, "OK, let's look at the data" -- this is chapter 15 if I remember correctly, "We will look now at the data on dysgenesis."
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life 1994
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