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Definition of Degenerative disorder

1. Noun. Condition leading to progressive loss of function.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Degenerative Disorder

Literary usage of Degenerative disorder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1890)
"Its life should be exceptionally quiet, so far as physical exertion goes. HEREDITARY ATAXIC PARAPLEGIA IN CHILDREN. There is a primary degenerative disorder ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"In support of the view that the convulsive tics are, in the main, a degenerative disorder, we will find that the majority of cases, even of mild type, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"... exquisite degenerative disorder," he says. The foundation symptom is the development of a system of delusional ideas, the individual variation of which ..."

4. Text-book of nervous diseases: Being a Compendium for the Use of Students by Charles Loomis Dana (1894)
"It is a primary degenerative disorder, involving, no doubt, the lateral and posterior columns of the spinal cord, but with a preponderance of the lesion in ..."

5. Transactions of the Odontological Society of Pennsylvania by Odontological Society of Pennsylvania (1895)
"The exclusive use of certain foods will produce another degenerative disorder, not often seen, —that is, scorbutus. Not that there is any similarity, ..."

6. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"... in a chronic degenerative disorder like this under consideration, and I believe that cases of consumption reported by Flint and others as cured by large ..."

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