How to Use degenerative in a Sentence

degenerative

adjective
Definition of degenerativenext
  • The degenerative nervous system disease can affect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • Biogen's drug Aduhelm may help slow damage to the brain caused by the degenerative disease.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 8 June 2021
  • Gayman suffers from a degenerative eye disease and pulmonary disease and relies on her scooter to get around.
    — oregonlive, 10 June 2021
  • Doyle has Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, a degenerative disorder in his left hip.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 7 June 2021
  • The degenerative signs noted in the cervical spines are likely due to the scribes' typical working position.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 June 2024
  • For example, a few years back, my team and I met a wonderful family whose children suffered from a rare degenerative brain disease.
    — Warren H. Cohn, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • The progressive, degenerative disease affects motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control muscle movement.
    — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 2 June 2021
  • Not everything that happens after a trauma is degenerative.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • As a long-lasting, degenerative disease with no cure, Alzheimer’s disease is an incredibly expensive disease to care for over the course of its progression.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 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
  • The cause of death was degenerative disease of the nervous system.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shawn White, 62, is in a wheelchair, and suffers from spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 28 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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 always caused by a brain injury that can occur after such things as a stroke, head injury, brain tumor or a degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's.
    — Jeannie Roberts, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
  • The game implies that Frank did not have a degenerative disease, but was actually infected by the virus and hanged himself.
    — Sabrina Talbert, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The pain and the degenerative arthritic changes are present only in my right (texting) thumb, which is significantly larger than my left thumb.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Conversely, weak glutes can lead to chronic lower-back pain, which can progress to degenerative disc disease.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The tennis legend suffers from Mueller-Weiss syndrome - a rare degenerative condition that affects bones in the feet.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 4 July 2022

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