degenerative disorder

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degenerative disorder - condition leading to progressive loss of function disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" demyelination - loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function dystrophy - any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition disseminated multiple sclerosis, disseminated sclerosis, MS, multiple sclerosis - a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers paralysis agitans, Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinsonism, shaking palsy - a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination chorea - any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs