degenerative
tending to degenerate.
characterized by degeneration.
Origin of degenerative
1Other words from degenerative
- non·de·gen·er·a·tive, adjective
- un·de·gen·er·a·tive, adjective
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How to use degenerative in a sentence
Those photoreceptor cells are the first to die in the degenerative disease.
A gene-based therapy partially restored a blind man’s vision | Tina Hesman Saey | May 24, 2021 | Science NewsCTE is a degenerative disease caused by repetitive hits to the head that is commonly associated with contact sports, including football.
Autopsy of ex-NFL player who fatally shot six people and himself to include CTE study | Glynn A. Hill | April 11, 2021 | Washington PostMcKee observed what she says are “all the classic signs” of severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the degenerative brain disease associated with the repeated blows to the head common in football and boxing.
More football leads to worse CTE, scientists say. Consider NFL great Willie Wood. | Rick Maese | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostCaldwell has several service-related injuries and other disabilities, his attorney said, including injuries to his shoulders, degenerative lumbar disc disease and chronic knee pain.
The feds say he’s an extremist leader who directed rioters. He also had top-secret clearance and worked for the FBI, attorney says. | Katie Shepherd | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostThe star of the feature-length Climbing Blind, Jesse Dufton, leads the trad route—but with the additional challenge of not being able to see it, as he was born with a degenerative eye disease that’s left him basically only able to perceive light.
Stream These 5 Highlights from the Banff Film Festival | Erin Berger | November 26, 2020 | Outside Online
In this degenerative illness, patients lose the function of the left half of their brain.
Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine Explores Creativity for Capitalists | Casey Schwartz | March 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI learned that he had a degenerative disease and might not live long enough even to finish his Ph.D. degree.
The cop had read a newspaper story about Lanza, and had a teenage son who was slowly going blind from a degenerative eye disease.
He was elevated by hope for an antidote to what felt like a toxic, degenerative condition.
Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerative changes that the nucleus is obscured.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddAs with the grown woman, so with the child, the degenerative form of hysteria makes those subject to it untrustworthy witnesses.
The Sexual Life of the Child | Albert MollWhat influences of a degenerative nature are likely to affect them?
Embryology | Gerald R. LeightonBut, as will presently be shown, a change of direction cannot take place at every stage of the degenerative process.
Evolution in Modern Thought | Ernst HaeckelThe condition, moreover, has a tendency to set into action degenerative tendencies latent in the liver and kidneys.
Degeneracy | Eugene S. Talbot
British Dictionary definitions for degenerative
/ (dɪˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtɪv) /
(of a disease or condition) getting steadily worse
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