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Noun: retrogression  `re-tru'gre-shun
  1. Passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form
    - degeneration
     
  2. Returning to a former state
    - regression, regress, reversion, retroversion

Derived forms: retrogressions

See also: retrogress

Type of: reversal, shift, transformation, transmutation

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