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• s  (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function
  degenerative diseases of old age

• For years, the degenerative brain illness that came to be known as Alzheimer's Disease was barely understood.
• Last February Wellstone announced he had a "mild form" of multiple sclerosis, but said the degenerative neurological disease would not blunt his energy or enthusiasm for political .
• One of the reasons man does not live a dog's full life is a group of degenerative diseases that attack the heart, kidneys, brain and arteries in middle-and old-age.

News & Articles

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• Estes Park Medical Center can help you get back in the game
  The structure of the human body is made up of hundreds of bones, joints, and muscles. In the game of life, when one of these gets injured, either through trauma, injury from sports, or degenerative disease, the entire body feels the effects.
  June 10, 2013 - Estes Park Trail Gazette
• Former Mass. Gov. Paul Cellucci Dies Of Lou Gehrig’s Disease
  Former Massachusetts Gov. Argeo Paul Cellucci has died at his home after a five-year battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He was 65 years old. Cellucci was governor of Massachusetts from 1997 to 2001. He died Saturday in his Hudson home of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable degenerative neurological disease. Prior to his tenure as governor, he [...] Former Mass. Gov. Paul Cellucci ...
  June 9, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Paul Cellucci, former governor and US ambassador to Canada, dies at 65 from ALS
  Argeo Paul Cellucci, a Hudson native who rose from a small-town selectman to become governor of Massachusetts and later US ambassador to Canada, died at home this afternoon after a five-year battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 65. Mr. Cellucci, who served as governor from 1997 to 2001, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a degenerative and incurable neurological condition, in his ...
  June 8, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• Margo MacDonald in Independent
  As you know, I have a degenerative condition,said Ms MacDonald, 64. "And I would like to have the right to determine by how much my capacity to fulfil my social function, my familial functions, my personal functions is going to be...
• Robert AM Stern in Newsday
  The donations will allow us to understand the long-term effects of concussion in terms of degenerative brain disease,Stern said. "We'll also hopefully understand what puts people at greater risk for developing it."
• Christos Pantelis in NEWS.com.au
  Mental illness can arrest the full maturation of the frontal lobe, while degenerative illness can damage it,Prof Pantelis said. "This area of the brain is used to analyse and identify smells so an abnormal sense of smell may indicate...