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单词 degenerative
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Definition of degenerative in English:

degenerative

adjective dɪˈdʒɛn(ə)rətɪvdəˈdʒɛnərədɪv
  • 1(of a disease) characterized by progressive deterioration and loss of function in the organs or tissues.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One woman went to an orthopedist for painful degenerative arthritis in her knee.
    • This pain suggests a new disease burden of degenerative musculoskeletal disorders in future adults.
    • Past history reveals degenerative arthritis, chronic neck and back pain.
    • Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is a degenerative neurological disease with a long incubation period.
    • Almost 80 percent of persons over age 70 have degenerative joint disease.
    • Loss of the meniscal cartilage can lead to degenerative arthritis.
    • This damage impairs the immune system, leading to infections, cancer, or degenerative diseases such as heart disease.
    • We have sympathy for people who are ill; people with tumours and heart disease and degenerative illnesses.
    • Ataxia telangiectasia is a progressive degenerative disease that involves a large number of major body systems.
    • It is also called degenerative arthritis or wear-and-tear arthritis.
    • The embryonic stem cells could then be used in transplantation therapy in patients with degenerative diseases of other tissues.
    • For Alzheimer's sufferers, the medical care is personal care, since it is an incurable degenerative disease.
    • One patient suffered from extensive dental loss and degenerative arthritis of the spine.
    • The scan showed areas of increased uptake in the lower spine, felt to be due to degenerative joint disease.
    • He had symptoms of degenerative arthritis but did not have evidence of joint effusions.
    • For example, in our cohort, one subject was blind and another had a degenerative neuromuscular disease.
    • Alzheimer's is a progressive degenerative illness that damages brain cells and affects around 35000 people in Ireland.
    • She had a particular interest in multiple sclerosis and in other chronic degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
    • Infectious diseases rather than chronic degenerative diseases were the order of the day, and the majority of the population lived in poverty and squalor.
    • Osteoarthritis is a form of degenerative arthritis that affects bone joints and develops slowly with age.
    Synonyms
    emaciated, atrophied, withered, shrivelled, weak, weakened, frail, shrunken, skeletal, rickety, scrawny, cadaverous, wilted, faded, flagging, deteriorating
    1. 1.1 Of or tending to decline and deterioration.
      the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a degenerative situation and once started, the dominoes start falling and the entire defensive infrastructure collapses.
      • What we see speaks volumes on our degenerative state of affairs.
      • I think the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are simply degenerative.
 
 

Definition of degenerative in US English:

degenerative

adjectivedəˈjenərədivdəˈdʒɛnərədɪv
  • 1(of a disease or symptom) characterized by progressive, often irreversible deterioration, and loss of function in the organs or tissues.

    degenerative diseases
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Ataxia telangiectasia is a progressive degenerative disease that involves a large number of major body systems.
    • We have sympathy for people who are ill; people with tumours and heart disease and degenerative illnesses.
    • Loss of the meniscal cartilage can lead to degenerative arthritis.
    • One woman went to an orthopedist for painful degenerative arthritis in her knee.
    • She had a particular interest in multiple sclerosis and in other chronic degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
    • This damage impairs the immune system, leading to infections, cancer, or degenerative diseases such as heart disease.
    • For example, in our cohort, one subject was blind and another had a degenerative neuromuscular disease.
    • Almost 80 percent of persons over age 70 have degenerative joint disease.
    • The scan showed areas of increased uptake in the lower spine, felt to be due to degenerative joint disease.
    • Osteoarthritis is a form of degenerative arthritis that affects bone joints and develops slowly with age.
    • For Alzheimer's sufferers, the medical care is personal care, since it is an incurable degenerative disease.
    • The embryonic stem cells could then be used in transplantation therapy in patients with degenerative diseases of other tissues.
    • This pain suggests a new disease burden of degenerative musculoskeletal disorders in future adults.
    • Infectious diseases rather than chronic degenerative diseases were the order of the day, and the majority of the population lived in poverty and squalor.
    • One patient suffered from extensive dental loss and degenerative arthritis of the spine.
    • Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is a degenerative neurological disease with a long incubation period.
    • It is also called degenerative arthritis or wear-and-tear arthritis.
    • Past history reveals degenerative arthritis, chronic neck and back pain.
    • He had symptoms of degenerative arthritis but did not have evidence of joint effusions.
    • Alzheimer's is a progressive degenerative illness that damages brain cells and affects around 35000 people in Ireland.
    Synonyms
    emaciated, atrophied, withered, shrivelled, weak, weakened, frail, shrunken, skeletal, rickety, scrawny, cadaverous, wilted, faded, flagging, deteriorating
    1. 1.1 Of or tending to decline and deterioration.
      the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a degenerative situation and once started, the dominoes start falling and the entire defensive infrastructure collapses.
      • What we see speaks volumes on our degenerative state of affairs.
      • I think the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are simply degenerative.
 
 
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