degeneration
Example Sentences
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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.
A year later she was forwarded to hospice care due to senile degeneration, according to a citation from the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals Health Facilities Division.
From Washington Times
Body horror is a subset of the horror film genre that depicts the destruction, degeneration or mutation of the human body.
From Salon
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
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