Example sentences for: degeneration

How can you use “degeneration” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The early onset of mitochondrial degeneration suggests that mutant SOD1 damages mitochondria and this damage plays a causative role in motoneuron degeneration.

  • the Beats really do mark an important moment in American culture, not as one of its achievements, but as a grievous example of its degeneration."

  • Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness that involves loss of retinal ganglion cells and degeneration of the optic nerve [ 1 ] . Glaucoma is usually associated with high intraocular pressure (IOP) that results from an increased resistance to drainage of the ocular fluid [ 1 ] . Developmental disorders of the ocular anterior segment, including Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome, are often associated with elevated IOP and glaucoma [ 1 2 ] . The developmental sequence and structure of the human and mouse ocular drainage structures are similar [ 3 ] , and the same genes are known to cause anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) in humans and mice.

  • During the lag between injury and robust growth, extensive changes occur within the injury site, including clearance of degeneration debris.

  • Color fundus photographs have been routinely employed for diagnostic purposes for many years, and fundus photo gradings are central to clinical studies of macular disease [ 1 2 ] . The natural history of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the developed world [ 3 ] , is in particular tied to that of subretinal deposits known as drusen [ 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ] . Drusen are key in the classification of AMD, hence the importance of drusen identification and measurement in clinical studies.


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