English-Dutch translations for degeneration

  • degeneratieOp het gehele lichaam overgebrachte trillingen leiden tot pijn in de lendenen en hernia en de vroegtijdige degeneratie van de wervelkolom. Whole body vibrations cause lumbar pain, slipped discs, as well as premature degeneration of the spinal column. Bepaalde ziekten kennen namelijk een lange incubatietijd tussen het moment dat de vezel zich in het lichaam nestelt en de biologische degeneratie die als gevolg daarvan optreedt. This is because some diseases have a long incubation period from the time when fibre is lodged in the body until the point of biological degeneration. In het klimaat van algehele degeneratie waarover Daniel Cohn-Bendit zich daarnet zo kritisch heeft uitgelaten, is dat ongewoon. In the climate of general degeneration of which Daniel Cohn-Bendit spoke so critically a few moments ago, that is a strange thing.

Definition of degeneration

  • The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse
  • 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
  • Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type

Examples

  • fatty degeneration of the liver

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