How to Use degenerative in a Sentence

degenerative

adjective
  • Metabolic switching between glucose and ketones is when cognition is best and degenerative diseases are kept at bay.
    Rahul Jandial, Md, Health.com, 5 June 2019
  • Outside of your genetic makeup, few things are definitively linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain conditions.
    Alice Park, Time, 11 July 2018
  • Loss of meniscus does increase the risk of degenerative changes in the knee.
    Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease the damages and kills brain cells.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • It’s here that Lish had to contend with his past — his own mother’s death from the degenerative disease.
    Tobias Carroll, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Biogen's drug Aduhelm may help slow damage to the brain caused by the degenerative disease.
    Joseph Walker, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • The cause of death was degenerative disease of the nervous system.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
  • The degenerative nervous system disease can affect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • More than six million people in the U.S. are living with the degenerative brain disease.
    Mia McNiece, PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The rare degenerative disease causes the cells in the retina to break down slowly over time, causing vision loss.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Film explores the life of Norwegian gamer Mats Steen, known as Ibelin in the gaming world, who died at the age of 25 from a degenerative muscular disease.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 21 July 2024
  • Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition where the cartilage in cats’ joints breaks down, which can lead to pain when the bones in the joint rub against each other.
    Sara Tabin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That will probably be the central conflict, though others in the town have stuff to deal with, from degenerative diseases to finding a dead body.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 9 Sep. 2023
  • And Bakari was an older male with a degenerative disc disease.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2022
  • But comedy can still be a weapon in the fight against this deadly degenerative disease.
    Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The future course of her disease is unpredictable as is the case with most degenerative diseases.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Julie Despres was a Navy wife and mother of four who turned to Misra in 2014 for relief from the torment of degenerative disc disease and lower back pain.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • New research shows that chronic stress can even raise the risk of degenerative brain diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Later in life, even as a degenerative eye condition robbed him of his sight, the images of his past never escaped him.
    NBC News, 15 May 2020
  • Shawn White, 62, is in a wheelchair, and suffers from spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • That’s just part of life with degenerative hearing loss, which the Eastern Hancock junior and her eighth-grade sister have had since childhood.
    Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The suit alleged that hits to the head led to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease known by the acronym CTE.
    Brian Melley, ajc, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Suppose the first has MS a degenerative disease that will probably kill them by age 75 while the other can expect to live to 80 - the average age of death in their country.
    Nicole Hassoun, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2020
  • There is no cure for the degenerative disease, and no treatment has yet been developed to slow its progression.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Doyle has Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, a degenerative disorder in his left hip.
    Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 7 June 2021
  • Took her own life after living with pain from a degenerative spinal disease.
    Bernard McGhee, Twin Cities, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Neely, 57, suffers from degenerative bone disease and spinal stenosis that leaves him in constant pain.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The only option for patients is drugs that can keep the degenerative condition in check, rather than tackle its root causes.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • It is thought to raise cancer risk, affect the central nervous system, increase degenerative effects like heart disease and cataracts, and change the immune system.
    Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2024
  • To makes matters worse, earlier the same week, Moth was diagnosed with a degenerative condition that would lead to difficulty walking and balancing, dementia, inability to swallow and, eventually, death.
    Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024

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