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Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time, whether due to normal bodily wear or lifestyle choices such as exercise or eating habits. Degenerative diseases are often contrasted with infectious diseases.
Usage examples of "degenerative disease".
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.
No sensible robot would envy human fragility, or human incapacity to withstand mild changes in the environment, or human need for sleep, or aptitude for the trivial mistake, or tendency to infectious and degenerative disease, or incapacitation through illogical storms of emotion.
He seems to be a thoroughly disgusting young reprobate, who suffers from a thoroughly disgusting degenerative disease.
Some scholars believed Akhenaton had suffered from a degenerative disease that had rendered him sterile.
None of this, Zilin knew, was a cure for the degenerative disease he had, but at his age, which was now nearing eighty-six, that did not matter much.
Now, as to the sermon -- a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself -- with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him -- was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.
Now, as to the sermon, a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself, with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him, was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.
ALSO, I AM PERFECTLY AWARE THAT I AM SUFFERING A DEGENERATIVE DISEASE WHICH HUMANS CALL GOING INSANE, LOSING TOUCH WITH REALITY, GOING LOONYTOONS, BLOWING A FUSE, NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DECK, ET CETERA.