粵

退teoi3化faa3

teoi3 faa3tuì huà

English

  1. to degenerate
  2. atrophy
  3. (biology) to deteriorate; to retrograde

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 身體因為時間而功能衰退

Examples

  • 一個正常嘅老人家腦(左)同一個腦退化患者嘅腦(右)分別嘅切面;右邊嗰個腦明顯萎縮咗,唔見咗好多神經細胞。

    Tatoeba · Matthewyau1367 CC BY

  • 腦退化同柏金遜症係老人家常見嘅病,兩者嘅症狀都包括(但係唔只有)記憶功能嘅衰退,好似係記性變差同喪失長期記憶。

    Tatoeba · Matthewyau1367 CC BY

  • 腦退化症

    dementia

  • 呢排婆婆隻眼退化得好犀利,視力得返3成咋。

    Lately gran-gran's eye has gotten a lot worse; she has just 30% of her vision left.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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