- A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and
odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially
in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.
- Large gourd - Large, ripe courgette - Soft bone tissue - Vital part - The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the
medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the
smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color. - The essence; the best part. - One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.
- The act or state of growing worse, or the state of
having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy;
deterioration. - 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; as, fatty degeneration of the
liver. - A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any
class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs;
hereditary degradation of type. - The thing degenerated.
- A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown
color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes
are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places.
It is a result of fatty degeneration.