If one disregards the patients of one's own practice and strives to comprehend a wider field of experience, he will in two directions encounter facts which will prevent him from assuming inversions as a degenerative sign.
The physicians who at first studied the perversions in pronounced cases and under peculiar conditions were naturally inclined to attribute to them the character of a morbid or degenerative sign similar to the inversions.
The only attention given to somatic sexual manifestations occurring before the age of puberty was in connection with degenerative manifestations, and these were referred to as a sign of degeneration.
Any epithelial cell may be so granular from degenerativechanges that the nucleus is obscured.
They are probably degenerative changes, although polychromatophilia is thought by many to be evidence of youth in a cell, and hence to indicate an attempt at blood regeneration.
These include the inflammatory and degenerative changes commonly grouped {71} together under the name of nephritis, and also renal tuberculosis, neoplasms, and cloudy swelling due to irritation of toxins and drugs.
The various degenerative and inflammatory conditions grouped under the name of nephritis have certain features in common.
It is, however, the final or degenerative period of life which produces the most formidable varieties of facial neuralgia.
There is otherwise a somewhat deceptive air about the appearance of many of these degenerative cases; for instance, a ruddy complexion is not uncommon, nor the retention of considerable, or even great, muscular strength.
It is very probable that his coronary arteries have now become involved in the degenerative process.
That this pain should be localized, often in a single nerve, is no more surprising than the fact that the degenerative process itself should vary so greatly in the degree of its development at one point from that which it shows at others.
Although the neuralgias of the degenerative period are thus fatally progressive, on the whole, there are some curious occasional anomalies.
The idiot and certain forms of the degenerative insane show this.
Criminal anthropologists, however, have shown that the physical conformation called by the name criminal, is really only the result of a defective ordegenerative physical constitution.
The degenerative effects of morphine are not so great nor so rapid as those of alcohol.
Dipsomania is a form of impulsive degenerative insanity, and it is probably epileptic in origin.
When, however, it is thus a degenerative character of sexual nature, having its origin in some abnormal foetal condition or later atrophy of the ovaries, it is no necessary indication of any aptitude for detumescence.
Such hypertrichosis is frequently degenerative in character, though still often associated with the sexual system.
If the invert succeeds in finding a male to his liking and with a similar degenerative state of mind to his own, he will pay him the attention that the normal man would to a woman.
Bestiality is not rare in women who are also subject to this filthy, obnoxious and degenerative practice.
He attributed these phenomena to an acute transverse myelitis with degenerative changes in the cord.
All are familiar with the published testimonials and indications, some of which would lead one to think that little else is to be desired with which to combat degenerative processes in mankind.
The conjugal and the paternal instincts being traits the sex has acquired by long ages of developmental progress, for men to lose these would be as easy as the loss would be degenerative to themselves and to those others.
Women who fence or play hockey and other rough games during girlhood, become, owing to such degenerative atrophy, incapacitated for lactation.
In commencing degenerative change the Oertel treatment, consisting of graduated exercise up a gentle slope, limitation of fluids and a special diet, may be indicated.
In view of the grave situation evidenced by the increase in the degenerativediseases affecting early middle life in the United States,[1] the extent, causes, and means of prevention of food poisoning seem pressing subjects for investigation.
For aught we now know to the contrary, the relatively high death-rates from degenerative changes in the kidneys, blood vessels, and other organs may be in part caused by the use of irritating chemical substances in food.
Under certain conditions it is possible that degenerative changes are initiated or accelerated in the kidneys or blood vessels by the acute poisoning which is manifested for a short time in even the milder cases.
We know that the inhabitants of the earth are constantly growing more fit; consequently, we know that they cannot be growing constantly more unfit, due to the degenerative influence of war.
Similarly has mankind developed powers of recuperation that largely tend to immunization against suchdegenerative effects as are of war.
Now, if what we are told about the degenerative effects of war is true, since we know that war has been prevalent in all ages, the natural conclusion is, what a lot of rapscallions we must be!
He describes also "degenerative changes in the cellular elements of cortex and medulla" consisting of vacuolation and disintegration of the cells with disappearance or loss of staining reactions of their nuclei.
The first linking of cardiac enlargement with scurvy is found in a paper by Darling, who described "right-sided hypertrophy and degenerative changes in the vagus and all its branches.
Ventral hernia is most common in pregnant mares, and is here due to the weight of the fetus or to some degenerativechanges taking place in the abdominal coats.
Among the predisposing causes in animals may be enumerated caries of articular surfaces, articular abscesses, excessive dropsical conditions, degenerative softening of the ligaments, and any excessive laxity of the soft structures.
Lastly, it is only within comparatively recent years that we have come clearly to recognize the large rôle which pneumonia plays in giving the finishing stroke to chronic diseases and degenerative processes.
These they form first into protoplasm, and then by a simple degenerative process it is transformed, "boiled down" as it were, into a yellow hydrocarbon which is capable of storage for practically an indefinite period.
The nervous structures in the physiological mechanism of speech and phonation are affected in this disease; but there are degenerative diseases of the brain in which the psychical mechanism of speech is affected, e.
Cornelius Black: "I showed the effect of impure air in promoting the degenerative tendency in the structures of the heart, and especially those of the right side of the heart, after the age of forty.
The conception of the morbid and degenerative character of genius is confirmed and completed more and more when its isolated phenomena are subjected to a more rigorous examination, and, as in chemical reactions, to mutual contact.
The same thing may be said of Guiteau, who presented an enormous number of degenerative characteristics.
And, as is the case in nearly all degenerative psychoses, undeveloped forms of mental disease, and recurring multiform delusions brought on by the most trivial causes, especially predominate in epilepsy.
This fact confirms a posteriori the degenerativecharacter of genius; and at the same time reveals the relationship which it generally has with moral insanity.
After a time structural changes occur in the liver; the organs of circulation early undergo atheromatous degeneration; various cerebral disorders due to degenerative changes arise; and acute intercurrent affections may terminate life.
Meanwhile the degenerative changes associated with it slowly develop on all sides.
At first, the degenerativeprocess was regarded as suppurative.
Many cases of persistent anaemia may be traced, according to Flint, to this degenerative process of the gastric tubules.
More frequently, however, no degenerative change has been found in the muscle.
This becomes inflammatory, and constitutes a primary syphilitic chondritis, the changes in the medulla of the bone beingdegenerative and secondary to the affection of the cartilage.
The thymus gland is occasionally found in syphilis to have undergone alterations claimed by Dubois, Depaul, and others to be syphilitic in their nature, but ascribed by Parrot simply to degenerative changes due to malnutrition.
Carcinoma gelatinosum or colloid cancer is of great relative frequency, but it is altogether probable that here, as elsewhere, this represents a degenerative form of ordinary carcinoma.
When the third stage is reached, or that of the formation of granulation-tissue, with degenerative changes of the cartilages and of the bones themselves, deformity often becomes more marked.
The glands and tubules become the seat of degenerative changes, such as are observed in Bright's disease of the kidney, and they are frequently found associated in the same case.
Tic is a sign of degeneration, in the biological and evolutionary sense, a degenerative neuropathic and psychopathic basis, as mentioned previously, being present, although often latent.
The tendency is a degenerative one-- a prolapse to ancestral methods of reaction, a dissociation or disintegration of the personality, a lack of control over more elementary activities.
Rather it is looked upon as a degenerative process affecting the arteries following a variety of causes more or less ill defined.
Focal degenerative lesions are, however, found in the abdominal aorta.
Following the degenerative changes there result connective tissue growth and further limitation of the functionating power of the affected organs.
Hard work, worry, and high living all predispose to degenerative changes in the arteries, and so bring on premature old age.
Prognosis is grave because of the fact that the heart muscle also is the seat of degenerative changes and compensatory hypertrophy is established with difficulty.
Certainly the character of the arterial tissue has much to do with the determination of degenerative changes which may result from the action of one or more of the etiologic factors.
Old animals are prone to fractures of bones and degenerative changes of the body tissues.
In addition, degenerative changes occur in the structures that attach the foetus to the womb, the normal structures being gradually destroyed by a fatty degeneration.
These organisms were described as "Laveran's degenerative forms.
The so-called "mania of doubt" is one of the most frequent phases in the degenerative forms of psychopathy, and sometimes precedes certain obsessions, which urge the sufferer on irresistibly to the commission of immoral or harmful acts.
Certain malformations of the external ear are indications of the existence of a morbid degenerative condition; but from the malformation itself there is nothing to fear.
As with the grown woman, so with the child, the degenerative form of hysteria makes those subject to it untrustworthy witnesses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "degenerative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
