This form of cerebellar degeneration may precede cancer. Alcoholic or nutritional cerebellar degeneration affects alcoholics and people with thiamine deficiency. It is not related to cancer and is more common than the paraneoplastic type.
Liquefaction is the process of loose soil acting like a liquid during an earthquake. Most of the time, buildings and homes are built upon solid bedrock.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. Liquefying in the air; capable of becoming liquid by attracting moisture from the atmosphere: as, deliquescent salts. Hence Apt to dissolve or melt away; wasting away by or as if by melting. In vegetable histology, liquefying or melting away gradually, as part of the normal process of growth.