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- noun Plural form of
degeneration .
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Examples
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Chronic inflammation, sooner or later, leads to secondary degenerations, that is, new products of the protoplasm, the most common of which is fatty degeneration.
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"Capitalism has invented new forms of struggle state intervention in the economy, expansion of the consumer sector, fascist governments while camouflaging class oppositions through various reformist tactics and exploiting the degenerations of working-class leaderships."
G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011
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We offer a full range of diagnostic testing for children with retinal degenerations, inherited retinal disorders and genetic syndromes associated with retinal degeneration.
Ophthalmology (Eye) 2010
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"Capitalism has invented new forms of struggle state intervention in the economy, expansion of the consumer sector, fascist governments while camouflaging class oppositions through various reformist tactics and exploiting the degenerations of working-class leaderships."
G. Roger Denson: Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left G. Roger Denson 2011
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"Neuroprotectin D1-mediated anti-inflammatory and survival signaling in stroke, retinal degenerations, and Alzheimer's disease."
Leo Galland, M.D.: Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health 2010
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"Neuroprotectin D1-mediated anti-inflammatory and survival signaling in stroke, retinal degenerations, and Alzheimer's disease."
Leo Galland, M.D.: Why Medication Can Be Dangerous to Your Health M.D. Leo Galland 2010
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Finally, there is the fact that the French Enlightenment and its degenerations, like Marxism, had not come along to push these thinking, but very practical, men off center stage.
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In this time of the five degenerations, you will be lucky to live to be as old as I am.
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I hope that it turns out, after more poking and prodding, to have been a muscle cramp, one that has nothing whatsoever to do with dystrophies or other muscular degenerations.
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I hope that it turns out, after more poking and prodding, to have been a muscle cramp, one that has nothing whatsoever to do with dystrophies or other muscular degenerations.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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