Degenerative
adjective
Gradually becoming worse or less, often because of a disease or old age.
She was diagnosed with a degenerative nerve disease.
Often appears as...
- degenerative disorder
- degenerative condition
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Formal
adjective
Of, or related to a loss of function or ability.
Degenerative changes in human body start appearing as the body ages.
Often appears as...
- degenerative process
- degenerative changes
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Formal
Academic
adjective
Subject to the process of breaking down or declining in quality or vigour.
Regular exercise can slow down the degenerative process within the body.
Often appears as...
- degenerative process
- degenerative impact
adjective
Gradually becoming worse or less, often because of a disease or old age.
She was diagnosed with a degenerative nerve disease.
Often appears as...
- degenerative disorder
- degenerative condition
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Of, or related to a loss of function or ability.
Degenerative changes in human body start appearing as the body ages.
Often appears as...
- degenerative process
- degenerative changes
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
adjective
Subject to the process of breaking down or declining in quality or vigour.
Regular exercise can slow down the degenerative process within the body.
Often appears as...
- degenerative process
- degenerative impact
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Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in healthcare topics to describe diseases that worsen over time.
Her degenerative condition will require ongoing treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Irreversible Nature
Implies the condition cannot improve and will continue to degrade.
Degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's cannot be reversed.
Pro Tip 3/3Aging Association
Often linked to aging, reflecting conditions that deteriorate naturally over time.
Age-related vision loss is a common degenerative problem.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in healthcare topics to describe diseases that worsen over time.
Her degenerative condition will require ongoing treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Irreversible Nature
Implies the condition cannot improve and will continue to degrade.
Degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's cannot be reversed.
Pro Tip 3/3Aging Association
Often linked to aging, reflecting conditions that deteriorate naturally over time.
Age-related vision loss is a common degenerative problem.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used in healthcare topics to describe diseases that worsen over time.
Her degenerative condition will require ongoing treatment.
Pro Tip 2/3Irreversible Nature
Implies the condition cannot improve and will continue to degrade.
Degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's cannot be reversed.
Pro Tip 3/3Aging Association
Often linked to aging, reflecting conditions that deteriorate naturally over time.
Age-related vision loss is a common degenerative problem.
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A prosthetic eye to...
pulses are changing all the time because the world you're looking at is is changing all the time too so you know it's sort of a complicated thing you have these patterns of pulses coming out of your eye every millisecond telling your brain what it is that you're seeing okay so what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like
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A healthy economy should...
You see, we've inherited degenerative industries. We take earth's materials, make them into stuff we want, use it for a while, often only once, and then throw it away, and that is pushing us over planetary boundaries, so we need to bend those arrows around, create economies that work with and within the cycles of the living world,
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Can I have your brain?...
and we started a brain bank. Turns out, if you want to know how to cure degenerative brain disease, you have to start by actually studying the brains. At this point, we were the first center in the world focused on CTE. It just had not been studied formally. And so we start this brain bank, and it's my job to get the brains
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Sheila Nirenberg: A...
all the time because the world you're looking at is changing all the time too. So, you know, it's sort of a complicated thing. You have these patterns of pulses coming out of your eye every millisecond telling your brain what it is that you're seeing. So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like
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What happens when you...
That's often true of subconcussive impacts which result from lower impact jolts to the head than those that cause concussions. This category of injury doesn't cause noticable symptoms right away, but can lead to severe degenerative brain diseases over time if it happens repeatedly.
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New Cage for Wu Wu PIPE...
because of his degenerative eye disease guru's journey will end at the center there's nowhere else for him to go but lowness still insists on offering him the best life he can possibly experience we're trying to save the species but you can't sort of help having to save those
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Why do our bodies age? -...
also known as epigenetic alterations, that affect the body's tissues and cells. Genes silenced or expressed only at low levels in newborns become prominent in older people, leading to the development of degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's, which accelerate aging.
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Michael Levin: The...
as you develop this understanding of how this bioelectric layer works. Yeah, this is incredibly exciting because, if you think about it, most of the problems of biomedicine -- birth defects, degenerative disease, aging, traumatic injury, even cancer --
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“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
muscular dystrophy a fatal degenerative disease that ultimately affects every muscle in the body on average kids with DMD died in their late teens or early Mario passed away the year that this
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How the food you eat...
These essential fatty acids, which have been linked to preventing degenerative brain conditions, must come from our diets. So eating omega-rich foods, like nuts, seeds, and fatty fish,
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A prosthetic eye to...
pulses are changing all the time because the world you're looking at is is changing all the time too so you know it's sort of a complicated thing you have these patterns of pulses coming out of your eye every millisecond telling your brain what it is that you're seeing okay so what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like
Video examples
A healthy economy should...
You see, we've inherited degenerative industries. We take earth's materials, make them into stuff we want, use it for a while, often only once, and then throw it away, and that is pushing us over planetary boundaries, so we need to bend those arrows around, create economies that work with and within the cycles of the living world,
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Can I have your brain?...
and we started a brain bank. Turns out, if you want to know how to cure degenerative brain disease, you have to start by actually studying the brains. At this point, we were the first center in the world focused on CTE. It just had not been studied formally. And so we start this brain bank, and it's my job to get the brains
Video examples
Sheila Nirenberg: A...
all the time because the world you're looking at is changing all the time too. So, you know, it's sort of a complicated thing. You have these patterns of pulses coming out of your eye every millisecond telling your brain what it is that you're seeing. So what happens when a person gets a retinal degenerative disease like
Video examples
What happens when you...
That's often true of subconcussive impacts which result from lower impact jolts to the head than those that cause concussions. This category of injury doesn't cause noticable symptoms right away, but can lead to severe degenerative brain diseases over time if it happens repeatedly.
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New Cage for Wu Wu PIPE...
because of his degenerative eye disease guru's journey will end at the center there's nowhere else for him to go but lowness still insists on offering him the best life he can possibly experience we're trying to save the species but you can't sort of help having to save those
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Why do our bodies age? -...
also known as epigenetic alterations, that affect the body's tissues and cells. Genes silenced or expressed only at low levels in newborns become prominent in older people, leading to the development of degenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's, which accelerate aging.
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
as you develop this understanding of how this bioelectric layer works. Yeah, this is incredibly exciting because, if you think about it, most of the problems of biomedicine -- birth defects, degenerative disease, aging, traumatic injury, even cancer --
Video examples
“Darius Goes West” PIPE...
muscular dystrophy a fatal degenerative disease that ultimately affects every muscle in the body on average kids with DMD died in their late teens or early Mario passed away the year that this
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How the food you eat...
These essential fatty acids, which have been linked to preventing degenerative brain conditions, must come from our diets. So eating omega-rich foods, like nuts, seeds, and fatty fish,
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Leigh Bardugo
Israeli Author
I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, 'Oh, I don't know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.' And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
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Aubrey de Grey
English Author
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
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Liz Murray
American Businesswoman
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
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Troy Aikman
American Athlete
A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.
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Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.
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David Perlmutter
American Scientist
The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.
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Judith Viorst
American Author
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.
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Annette Funicello
American Actress
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
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Eric Topol
American Scientist
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
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Leigh Bardugo
Israeli Author
I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, 'Oh, I don't know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.' And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.
Quote examples
Aubrey de Grey
English Author
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
Quote examples
Liz Murray
American Businesswoman
Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was entitled to welfare, and our lives revolved around the first day of every month when her payment was due.
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Troy Aikman
American Athlete
A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.
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Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.
Quote examples
David Perlmutter
American Scientist
The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.
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Judith Viorst
American Author
It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.
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Annette Funicello
American Actress
MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
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Eric Topol
American Scientist
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
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