Fields' disease is a neuromuscular disease, causing muscular degeneration.
Methamphetamine is a potent neurotoxin, shown to cause dopaminergic degeneration.
But it is known to cause degeneration in human brains after extremely long periods of infection.
One newspaper's headline was "Movie causes moral degeneration."
If he had been deprived of oxygen enough to cause axonal degeneration, they wouldn't havebeen able to resuscitate him.
In recent years, however, natural disasters and overgrazing have caused serious degeneration of grassland.
It is still not clear how the mutations cause macular degeneration.
Doctors discovered he had been born with a hereditary hearing ailment that caused degeneration of the audio nerve.
The problem is that apoptosis seems to ramp up late in life and kill healthy cells, causing weakness and degeneration.