Considering these influences and the arbitrariness of the orthoepical rules of the language, there has been expressed surprise that frequentdegenerations into uncouth dialects or patois have not occurred.
Again, secondary degenerations are more pronounced in long-standing processes.
It is well known that many of these toxic agents, even in very small quantity give rise to degenerations of the kidney.
Ridge says these degenerations occur in the tissues of thin people as well as in those of stout persons.
Hence non-alcoholic physicians urge that alcohol and such other drugs, as have like action in hindering full oxidation of the blood, and causing fatty degenerations should be studiously avoided.
Modern investigations have given good ground for the belief that these degenerations are the result of the influence of ptomaines, leucomaines and other poisons produced within the body, upon the tissues.
Were races confessed to be the degenerations of a specific type, then it would be apparent to the capacity of a boy that the appearance of characters under domestication was due to reversion.
Races under nature are, upon our theory, caused by degeneration; they are various degenerations of a specific type.
He conceived "that what we call species are various degenerations of the same type.
It has largely aided real or family consanguinity in the production of the diseases and degenerations which have so heavily fallen upon the aristocracies and royal families of Europe.
Such resemblances are carried out in the degenerations which the cells of cancer undergo.
To these may be added the fatty degenerations associated with amyloid and interstitial processes.
They consist essentially of parenchymatous degenerations of various organs and tissues, and are generally more marked in typhoid fever because the pyrexia is not only of high grade, but also of longer duration than in other diseases.
Its degenerations are often the same, and its symptoms are due to the action of like causes.
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In acute yellow atrophy of the liver and in cases of severe jaundice fatty degenerations are constantly met with.
The degenerations of the epithelioid cells and stroma suggest qualifying terms.
The degenerations represent disturbances in the nutrition of the tissues of the body, in consequence of which their functions become impaired, if not destroyed.
Cases of enlargement, of fibroid, fatty, and gelatinous degenerations of the suprarenal capsules, have been recorded.
Arterial degenerations may cause thrombotic accidents, and the formation of miliary aneurisms in the brain may determine a fatal issue by softening or hemorrhage.
The arthritis deformans which develops with the degenerations of advancing years is not infrequently associated with a family history of genuine gout.
Degenerations of the vessels, particularly fatty and atheromatous degeneration of the arteries.
It is altogether likely, however, that in such cases degenerations of the vascular walls alone may cause the extravasations.
His studies included organic degenerations of other organs, and in his treatise on "Diseases of the Old" it is made clear that many of the symptoms of old age are due to organic lesions for which no cure can ever be expected.
No doubt the peculiarity of badly supporting alcohol is inherited by ordinary heredity as a hereditary disposition, but it is not this which produces the alcoholic degenerations of the race.
Wherever the prejudices of a caste compel its members to intermarry, certain specialdegenerations are produced.
In this way blastophthoria deposits the first germ of most pathological degenerations by causing immediate deviation of all the determinants of the germ in the same direction.
No doubt, our pathological degenerations and our cross-breeding are so infinitely complex that at any time atavism may produce ecphoria of better children derived from bad parents, and that of inferior children derived from better parents.
An extensive study of the alcohol question has shown me that hereditary degenerations and sexual evils in the country are principally due to alcoholism and its blastophthoria (vide Chapter I).
This sad sign of degeneration is due to a large extent, as Bunge has shown by careful statistics, to the habit of taking alcoholic drinks, and is combined with other blastophthoric degenerations due to hereditary alcoholism.
The intelligent reader will readily conceive that he who has found the secret of the degenerations constituting the various forms of disease, will not hesitate before their complications.
The principal ways in which these degenerations manifest themselves are pains, mental agony and derangement, temporary cessation of functions, cramps, involuntary movements and similar disturbances.
All degenerations of the mucous membrane are based on deficiencies in blood circulation and composition.
Vascular growths not unfrequently form in the scalp, and attain considerable size; in general they are either congenital, or the degenerations of nævi materni.
Slow degenerations of the spinal chord are not easily combated with success.
Even the exanthemata may cause degenerations in the arteries, but, as has been shown, such lesions probably heal completely with no resulting damage to the vessel.
The degenerationsin the arteries following the experimental lesions are of the nature of a fatty metamorphosis, and later proceed to calcification.
There were secondary degenerations of ascending and descending type particularly marked at the ninth dorsal segment.
Such irregularity perhaps most frequently occurs with valvular disease, especially mitral stenosis and in the muscular degenerations of senility, as fibrosis.
It remains for me to notice, also very briefly, the management of cardio-vascular degenerations when the heart fails, or when it appears to fail, and distress and danger demand more direct and immediate attention.
Can the cause of these degenerations of the heart and arteries be determined in each instance?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degenerations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
