Meanings of atrophy (atrophies) in English

None of these steroids caused atrophies of the spleen and thymus.

Whichever faculty you use, the other atrophies, and partly deserts you.

Community life atrophies, people cease to trust each other, and homicide rates are higher.

In this regard, ALS muscle atrophies and weakens significantly before presentation of neurological symptoms.

Fasciculations are an important neurological sign of spinal muscular atrophies.

The base of the pyramid atrophies and begins to crumble.

The more we consume, the more our moral imagination atrophies.

Brain MRI showed variable anomalies with progressive cerebral and cerebellar atrophies and T2-hyperintense brain stem lesions.

Genuflexion before the idol or the dollar atrophies the muscle which walks and the will which moves.

If it yields to their narcotic charms, the best brain grows rusty and atrophies in the long run.

For just as the thymus involutes at the second year, the pineal atrophies before the onset of adolescence.

The ovaries cease producing their eggs and so shrivel as a storage battery atrophies when it dries up.

The tiny corner of the American imagination which soccer owns, atrophies and swells but never threatens the status quo.

The paralyzed part atrophies (wastes) rapidly.

After two years on the moon human bone structure atrophies to a point where return to Earth gravity is almost certainly fatal.

It afterwards atrophies; but the relic of the atrophied caudal vertebrae and of the rudimentary muscles that once moved it remains permanently.