(n.) The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
(n.) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.
(n.) A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
(n.) The thing degenerated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(2) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) of rats resulted in cell death and terminal degeneration in entorhinal, insular, and posterior cingulate cortices, and in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus sectors of hippocampus.
(5) Certain underlying factors in several types of retinal degeneration are first discussed, followed by characteristics of diabetic maculopathy and of other types of macular degeneration including that due to aging.
(6) Hyperopia was more common in younger persons, but senile cataract, macular degeneration and palpebral dermatochalasis or blepharochalasis were more common in older persons.
(7) Since only a few of these medium sized terminals in any one cluster degenerate after tectal lesions, and none degenerate after cortical lesions, it is suggested that the morphological arrangement of these clusters may permit the convergence of axons from several sources, some of which are unidentified, onto the same dendritic segment.
(8) Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is one of the leading causes of severe visual loss in the United States.
(9) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
(10) The eye of a patient with age-related macular degeneration was treated with krypton laser photocoagulation and later studied histopathologically.
(11) At hypothyroid patients there is an ADP excess which is degenerated to xanthine, the substrate of xanthine oxidase resulting in toxic anion superoxide and UA.
(12) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
(13) I think you're probably right that the accent does degenerate along with Richard.
(14) Optical light, transmission, and scanning electron microscopy were used in investigations of epithelia in the glandular region of the milk cistern and greater lactiferous ducts and yielded the following findings, four and six hours from infection: degeneration and necrosis of epithelial cells, intraepithelial foreign cell infiltration (neutrophilic granulocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages), intra-epithelial oedema and locally delimited epithelial loss.
(15) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(16) Key findings include a progressive degeneration of these cholinergic neurons characterized by the formation of immunoreactively atypical NFT, the loss of intraneuronal lipofuscin, a lack of senile plaque and beta-amyloid deposition within the basal forebrain, and end-stage gliosis without residual extracellular NFT.
(17) Differential degeneration of the lateral microvessels may account for increases in collagen nodule growth and ultimate size.
(18) Ultrastructurally, the atrial myocardial cells in all three patients were hypertrophied, and two patients had evidence of focal cell degeneration; the atrium was markedly dilated, but atrial arrhythmias were not noted.
(19) Pathological consequences of these events include inflammatory neutrophil infiltration, damage to the collagen and mucosal basement membrane, increased capillary permeability, edema, cell degeneration and necrosis.
(20) These tangential fibers are in part the preterminal arborizations of geniculocortical axons, since some of them have been shown to degenerate after geniculate lesions.
Obsolescence
Definition:
(n.) The state of becoming obsolete.
Example Sentences:
(1) He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets.
(2) As a minimum, there must be a system to guard against incompetence through obsolescence of any of the practicing professionals.
(3) Following this procedure, seven of the 29 biopsies had focal segmented hyalinosis and 16 of the 29 had focal glomerular obsolescence.
(4) However, the matrix of obsolescent Alport glomeruli stained intensely for collagen V and collagen VI, while these collagen types were not prominent in obsolescent glomeruli of non-Alport diseases kidneys.
(5) This form of tubular change is quite different from the well-known atrophy of the proximal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli in chronic glomerulonephritis.
(6) Planned obsolescence's running mate is Moore's law , which decrees that every two years the computing world doubles the amount of transistors on a computer chip and therefore the power of the computer.
(7) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(8) Implications for the obsolescence of parts of the literature of science are discussed, and the relevance of this analysis to Kuhn's work on scientific revolutions is briefly noted.
(9) In obsolescent glomeruli, anti-IV was not always detected although anti-V was constantly seen.
(10) The second thing you notice is that in the last decade or so, this warranted interceptions regime has been utterly wormholed, circumvented to the point of obsolescence.
(11) Percentage of obsolescent glomeruli and the degree of tubulointerstitial lesions, but not active glomerular lesions (crescents, necroses) predicted renal outcome.
(12) Thus the return-stroke muscle of the larval exopodites in which muscle fiber and motoneurons are identifiable permits study of the interaction between a neuron and its target muscle undergoing programmed obsolescence.
(13) Observation of serial sections showed that these epithelial cell clusters were derived from the distal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli.
(14) In all eight biopsy specimens, we detected hyaline arterionephrosclerosis, focal glomerular obsolescence, and segmental, afibrillar thickening of glomerular basement membranes.
(15) Robots that can plant, fertilise, spray, weed, monitor, harvest, pack and transport crops will inhabit the countryside Such traditional, driven machines – even those adapted with GPS – are, however, already threatened with obsolescence.
(16) Other economic and operational benefits which result from the scheme are commercially disinterested advice on equipment obsolescence and replacement, and redistribution between the laboratories of old but useful equipment to meet specific needs of the service in the region.
(17) There was a positive correlation between an increase in renal cortical echoes and interstitial infiltration as well as with glomerular obsolescence, tubular atrophy, and vascular changes.
(18) Obsolescent Alport glomeruli, in which the capillary tuft had collapsed and few remaining cell nuclei were present, exhibited nearly complete loss of alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV), like obsolescent glomeruli in non-Alport diseased kidneys.
(19) The patients were classified into three groups based on the histologic findings in their initial renal biopsies: Group I (n = 19) had a combination of global and segmental lesions; Group II (n = 8) had only globally sclerotic or obsolescent glomeruli; and Group III (n = 5) had only segmentally sclerosed glomeruli.
(20) 4) A European sharing economy In a packed tent outside the parliament, a film called The Light Bulb Conspiracy is showing, an investigative documentary about planned obsolescence – the engineering of products designed to fail in order to guarantee consumer demand.