degeneration
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She has macular degeneration and is considered legally blind, though she has been able to function at home.
From MarketWatch
If your pain is from nerve compression, a disc issue or joint degeneration, inactivity can cause muscles to tighten, pain to worsen, loss of physical condition and more debility.
From Science Daily
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.
"Free oxygen radicals damage proteins, which causes them to misfold and aggregate, then fatty protein deposits called drusen begin to accumulate, which is the main diagnostic criterion for the dry form of age-related macular degeneration."
From Science Daily
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