Definitionadj. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
Last update: June 7, 2015
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The ctenidium is atrophied, and the edge of the mantle-skirt is fused to the dorsal integument by concrescence, except at one point which forms the aperture of the mantle-chamber, thus converted into a nearly closed sac. Air is admitted to this sac for respiratory and hydrostatic purposes, and it thus becomes a lung. [Please select]
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She sometimes thought that but for Jeanie it would have atrophied altogether. [Please select]
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The rudimentary metacarpals are vestiges of atrophied digits, as will be explained further on. [Please select]
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In the pig and the ox it is atrophied. [Please select]
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His power of feeling had not been atrophied, rather it had become deeper. [Please select]
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It was as if some nerve--the sentimental nerve--had atrophied. [Please select]
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The passion of the body was dead in her--atrophied. [Please select]
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And, with the passing days, Baby continued to look less and less like an atrophied mummy, and more like a thin, but normal, child of five. [Please select]
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His power to reason has relieved them of many of their duties, and so they have, to some extent, atrophied, as have the muscles which move the ears and scalp, merely from disuse. [Please select]
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