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Definition of Dysgenic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced.

Definition of Dysgenic

1. Adjective. of or relating to, or causing degeneration or deterioration in offspring ¹

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Definition of Dysgenic

1. causing the deterioration of hereditary qualities [adj]

Medical Definition of Dysgenic

1. System of breeding or selection that is genetically deleterious or disadvantageous. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysgenic

Literary usage of Dysgenic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Applied Eugenics by Roswell Hill Johnson, Paul Bowman Popenoe (1918)
"CHAPTER IX THE dysgenic CLASSES Before examining the methods by which society can put into effect some measure of negative or restrictive eugenics, ..."

2. A History of Social Thought by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1922)
"This conclusion implies that the dysgenic classes must be prevented from producing children, that the poor must be raised to higher educational and economic ..."

3. Eugenics marriage and birth control practical eugenics by William J. (William Josephus) Robinson (1917)
"These are undoubtedly abnormal conditions, and, taken as a general thing, they are dysgenic factors. But a dysgenic factor in an animal is a dysgenic factor ..."

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