Concept information
Preferred term
degenerative disease
Definition
- Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time.In neurodegenerative diseases cells of the central nervous system stop working or die via neurodegeneration. (Wikipedia)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Alexander disease
- Alpers disease
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- dementia
- dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy
- dyssynergia cerebellia myoclonica
- dystonia musculorum deformans
- dystrophy
- Fahr syndrome
- Gilles de la Tourette syndrome
- hereditary spastic paraplegia
- Huntington disease
- Joseph disease
- Krabbe disease
- Kugelberg-Welander disease
- Leigh disease
- leukodystrophy
- Marinesco-Sjögren syndrome
- metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Milwaukee shoulder syndrome
- motor neuron disease
- multiple system atrophy
- myositis ossificans progressiva
- neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
- osteoarthritis
- Parkinson disease
- prion disease
- progressive myoclonus epilepsy
- Refsum disease
- Rett syndrome
- Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
- spinal amyotrophy
- spinocerebellar ataxia
- spinocerebellar heredodegeneration
- subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
- supranuclear ophthalmoplegia
- Werdnig-Hoffmann disease
- Wolfram syndrome
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/VH8-SHG7GR1P-W
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