What is "degenerative"

Usage examples of "degenerative".

Not only is it an alterative and a nutritive restorative, acting upon the secretions, but it opposes putrefaction and degenerative decay of the fluids and solids.

Few households had been spared asbestosis or one of the other degenerative diseases associated with the onetime wonder fiber.

The dumpy woman suffered from a degenerative muscular condition, and Eduard was stuck with it until he could trick someone else into swapping.

Torres will be appointed Federation Liason to the Klingon Empire, Paris will begin writing holonovels, Tuvok will succumb to a degenerative brain disease, and Janeway will be promoted to Admiral.

Since he went blind as a kid from a degenerative pigmentary disorder that came with his genes, Whistler had never taken the easy route.

Frock is referring to diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, a type of severe degenerative arthritis.

Human rations were fixed far below qualitative and quantitative minima for health, and within a short time, malnutrition, skin ailments, infections, and degenerative diseases began to kill millions.

In fact, a blind ophthalmologist is not much good to anyone, but it was up to him to inform the health authorities, to warn them of this situation which might turn into a national catastrophe, nothing more nor less, of a form of blindness hitherto unknown, with every appearance of being highly contagious, and which, to all appearances, manifested itself without the previous existence of earlier pathological symptoms of an inflammatory, infectious or degenerative nature, as he was able to verify in the blind man who had come to consult him in his surgery, or as had been confirmed in his own case, a touch of myopia, a slight astigmatism, all so mild that he had decided, in the meantime, not to use corrective lenses.

Troeltsch says he for his own part wouldn't be just sitting and lying there if any of the Little Buddies under his personal charge were out there getting potentially injured, and Hal reflects that he does feel a certain sort of intense anxiety, but can't sort through the almost infinite-seeming implications of what Troeltsch is saying fast enough to determine whether the anxiety is over something about what he's seeing or something in the connection between what Troeltsch is saying and the degree to which he's absorbed in what's going on out inside the fence, which is a degenerative chaos so complex in its disorder that it's hard to tell whether it seems choreographed or simply chaotically disordered.

Aluminum, it seems, is suspected of playing a role in Alzheimer's disease, a form of degenerative senile dementia thought to afflict 5-10 percent of all persons over 65.

Now you get a cell population exposed to a particular radiation dose and what you have is an aggravation of the slowdown thing, the radiation on top of the natural degenerative body process.

This was degenerative arthritis, where the cushioning cartilage between the bones simply wears out, and gradually disintegrates, leaving the bones to grind together, creating a wide range of pain and trouble.

Any lesser man would have already succumbed to the debilitating pain of his degenerative disease.

Betty has stopped a progressively degenerative disease progressing.

They were all tall---even Colum, victim of a crippling degenerative disease, had been tall to begin with-fairskinned Vikings, the lot of them, with a ruddy blaze to their coloring that shimmered from Jamie's fiery red through his uncle Dougal's deep russet.