(n.) The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(3) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(4) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(5) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
(6) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(7) Finally, these cases support the existence of a therapeutic upper limit for desipramine plasma concentrations, above which clinical deterioration occurs.
(8) In view of the high mortality every clinical deterioration of patients with cirrhosis should alert the physician of the presence of SBP.
(9) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(10) The data suggest late hemodynamic deterioration after 48 hours of IABC.
(11) Aspartylglycosaminuria (AGU) is a hereditary metabolic disorder characterized by slowly progressive mental deterioration from infancy, urinary excretion of large amounts of aspartylglycosamine, and decreased activity of the lysosomal enzyme aspartylglcosamine amido hydrolase in various body tissues and fluids.
(12) The dilemma focuses on whether the obliteration or removal of the cystic areas will benefit or cause further deterioration of the patient's condition.
(13) Bacteriuria was not associated with deteriorating renal function determined by serial plasma creatinine estimations.
(14) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
(15) During a postoperative follow-up period of 1 to 3 years, no further deterioration has been observed and magnetic resonance studies have demonstrated a space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the lumbosacral cord.
(16) Use of sunglasses that block all ultraviolet radiation and severely attenuate high-energy visible radiation will slow the pace of ocular deterioration and delay the onset of age-related disease, thereby reducing its prevalence.
(17) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
(18) Rates of clinical deterioration and frequencies of attacks were not significantly different between treated and control groups.
(19) In a follow-up of 17 HIV-positive subjects, nine presented deteriorated reflexes in the tests and higher IgG immune complex levels.
(20) However, these good results deteriorated on longer follow-up and were not expected to be permanent.
Retrogression
Definition:
(n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
(n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
Example Sentences:
(1) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(2) Thus it is clear that DAB induced hepatoma exhibits retrogressive change in hepatic differentiation in its isozyme profile.
(3) Theophyllin and puromycine, inhibitors of the enzyme phosphodiesterase and AMPc are all able to inhibit the retrogression of mullerian ducts in the female chick embryo, grafted with an embryonic testis.
(4) Beatrix Campbell, in a letter to the London Review of Books this January, mentions Thatcher's "retrogressive modernisation", as described by Hall.
(5) Treated with TCM of Ziyin Xiehuo, (nourish vital essence reducing intense internal heat) and remitted, the levels of serum FSH, LH, E2 descend significantly, the volume of uterus and ovary reduce markedly, secondary sexual characteristics retrogress evidently, while the features of intense internal heat due to deficiency of vital essence mitigate obviously.
(6) Cavenagh said although the arrest was lawful under NT legislation, the paperless arrest scheme was “retrogressive” and unjustifiable preventive detention.
(7) Rabbits given a single high dose of digitoxin and some of the antiarrhythmic drugs and those given a small dose of digitoxin for only four days, presented a retrogressive increase of digitoxin level in serum 5-6 days later.
(8) Possibly even retrogressive changes are occurring, except in those rare sub-populations in which special social and cultural practices tend to favor selective perpetuation of characteristics which are usually viewed as beneficial.
(9) Detailed morphological studies have shown that posttraumatic osteomyelitis often begins with a necrosis of the outer tangential lamella of the tubular bone partly promoted by partial periosteal retrogression, possibly followed by a necrosis of the fracture ends caused by a disturbance of the medullary blood circulation.
(10) Rationality belongs to the individual,” Laclau writes, characterising the anti-populist thesis, and when the individual takes part in a crowd or a mass movement they are subject to the most criminal or beastly elements of that group and undergo a “biological retrogression” to a less enlightened state of being.
(11) "Retrogression is what you talk about in human rights when you go backwards, and that is what we are seeing now.
(12) Different tendencies can be observed in the different types of sports: skiing accidents have, after a long period of retrogression until 1973, shown a noticeable augmentation again.
(13) In chronic infections and parasitoses they evoke a retrogression of the fatty tissue (cachexia).
(14) From the results the tendency of a retrogression of the holiday effect is to be read off in the course of years.
(15) Since neuroretinopathy consequentially worsens both the subjective (visual acuity, sensitivity to the contrast) and objective (electric activity) sight functions, the appropriate attempt is to be made in achieving rapidly retrogression of pathologic retinal changes by modification of dialysis process.
(16) The high grade destruction of muscle tissue leads to a not retrogressive stenosis, even after sanitation of biliary tract, which principally should be discised.
(17) In 7 cases a complete retrogression of the lodge to the size of the urethra could be proved radiologically.
(18) Concerning personality, the children showed elements of "dependence" "retrogression" and "maladaptation to school (kindergarten)".
(19) Treatment with neomercazole had shown, good correlation between time lag and the retrogressive changes.
(20) After administration of testosterone propionate to male chick embryos and chickens, their testis have an activity, on the retrogression of mullerian ducts, much more important than that observed in testis of normal subjects of the same age, activity measured by grafting testis fragments in undifferentiated female chick embryos.