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Muscular degeneration due to atrophy of motor neurons in the spinal cord or brainstem.

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Writing on stars are mostly about gossip and scandal, a degeneration into lifestyle reporting.
Scarlett Johansson is an Alien Seductress in ‘Under the Skin’|Jimmy So|April 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And in her final years, when she was blinded by macular degeneration and suffocating with emphysema, vanity left her isolated.
Understanding Diana Vreeland, ‘Empress of Fashion’|Robin Givhan|November 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Two things become more likely with age, she said: degeneration and cancer.
World Science Festival: Can We Really Live to 1,000?|Casey Schwartz|June 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
When RPE cells die, as they do in macular degeneration, the photoreceptors begin to die, too, and the patient goes blind.
Saving Sight, Testing Faith|Sharon Begley|May 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Except in this disease, the degeneration indicates a serious blood condition.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Sir John had lately noticed another degeneration, namely, in the quality of the London gas.
With Edged Tools|Henry Seton Merriman
The degeneration of the original species is still greater in our climates.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Finally he takes to drinking and becomes a picture of degeneration.
The Range Boss|Charles Alden Seltzer
That any degeneration might come in by the way, that the printed text might contain blunders, was not perceived.
The Age of Erasmus|P. S. Allen