degeneration
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In the United States, age-related macular degeneration is one of the most common causes of permanent vision loss in adults who are 60 and older.
From Science Daily
Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
Recent evidence suggests that overactivity of brain immune cells called microglia, which devour unfamiliar pathogens and dead brain tissue, may accelerate brain degeneration.
From Washington Post
Lutein, meso-zeaxanthin and zeaxanthin have been shown to be particularly important for eye health and can reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration, which leads to blurring of your central vision.
From Salon
To be in favor of reasonably examining policing’s proper place seems equated with wishing for Seattle’s degeneration into a nightmarish hellscape where bullets hail down on every street corner.
From Seattle Times
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