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Definition of Atrophied

1. Adjective. (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use. "Partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"

Definition of Atrophied

1. p. a. Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

Definition of Atrophied

1. Adjective. characterized by atrophy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Atrophied

1. atrophy [v] - See also: atrophy

Medical Definition of Atrophied

1. Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrophied

Literary usage of Atrophied

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"On microscopic examination of these atrophied parts we see connective-tissue striae with atrophied connective-tissue corpuscles, and the section of fine, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"Many have their sheaths atrophied. Anterior roots normal, and their nerve fibrils having perfect sheaths. ARTICLE VI. FATAL POISONING BY MUSHROOMS. ..."

3. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Charles Handfield Jones, Edward Henry Sieveking (1854)
"Drawing of atrophied kidney. mass. In other less advanced cases, and in some parts, indeed, of all, the tubes are still discernible: they are irregularly ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"There is no palsy except of atrophied muscles. Abdominal muscles and reflexes are normal. There is no bladder disturbance. ..."

5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1896)
"The epidermis here is slightly atrophied, smooth, and shiny; and beneath it can be seen many small capillaries, and two long veins vertically situated. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1887)
"palpi are atrophied. But while the second maxilla; of the Term! lid re and Perlidae are well developed, the degraded condition of those of the Pso ..."

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