Mr. Caban's wife, Diane Victoria Caban, has Huntington's disease, an incurable degenerative disorder.
Rees spoke of Hawking's determination after being diagnosed with the degenerative disorder amyotropic lateral sclerosis.
McDonald was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system, in 2007.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and fatal degenerative disorder of motor neurons.
Parkinson's is a long-term degenerative disorder of the nervous system that mainly affects a person's motor abilities.
It is a degenerative disorder involving dopaminergic neuronal loss in the striatal tract of the basal ganglia.
Rather, he had another degenerative disorder, "perhaps familial," the report stated, that had progressively destroyed his cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for muscle control and coordination.
This is partly due to that most contemporary of conditions, the degenerative disorder of the attention span that now affects pretty much anyone with an Internet connection.
Her sister is incontinent, she has had a hip replacement, and she has a degenerative disorder that destroyed most of her vision.
In the kitchen of his home in south London Dave Clark is speaking about Parkinson's, the degenerative disorder he was diagnosed with seven years ago.
His 73-year-old father, Walter, had received a diagnosis of the degenerative disorder Parkinson's disease earlier in the morning.
