degenerative

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Degenerative arthritis is no longer exclusive to the elderly population.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

Degenerative diseases are “akin to an act of betrayal against the beauty of one’s accumulated life experiences,” Lee writes in her artist’s statement.

From Scientific American • Aug. 12, 2021

Degenerative and incurable, it is democratic in its reach.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2016

Almost immediately the inhabitants display symptoms of the "Degenerative Disease," a bellicose assertion of ego against the grain of the common good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Degenerative changes affecting nerves, as in other tissues, occur and more or less locomotory impediment will follow—this depending upon the nerve or nerves affected and the nature of such involvement.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor