Partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought. From Dictionary.com.
At the same time the column was partially atrophied. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
His left arm has atrophied, as if he has had a stroke. From Wordnik.com. [Va. family struggling with son's genetic disorder faces new crisis: foreclosure] Reference
Success has not atrophied either his manners or his impulses. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Virginia's heart was quite atrophied, and so with choking voice she began. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
They have atrophied in the last 50 years, but they haven't died altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Forget, Hell!] Reference
His mind, and seemingly his soul with it, had become practically atrophied. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
An atrophied muscle or organ becomes soft and flabby from lack of nourishment. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
It is atrophied -- yours and mine and all of us -- the soul has gone and mine?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Meanwhile, the protest movement muscles of progressives seem to have atrophied. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Mogulescu: Take Back the Streets From Beck, Palin, Fox News, The Koch Brothers, and the Tea Party] Reference
The CIA's skills in the dark arts of running agents have atrophied over the years. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To September 11] Reference
He knew it was mad, but it was saving Nicholas from being atrophied, so he had said. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
I should probably overlook her, and she would become atrophied or die of neglect or thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
There are still young people in the world whose brains have not been atrophied by television. From Wordnik.com. ['It Is So Sad to Just Accept'] Reference
Every three minutes a car of people wooshes by, leaving the same atrophied cry in their wake. From Wordnik.com. [First Night] Reference
Aborted: a structure developed so as to be unfit for its normal function obsolete or atrophied. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
When it occurs, the true anther-lobes are usually atrophied, and little or no pollen is formed. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
They're mostly true: vicious politics, abominable manners, a dangerously atrophied civic spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Cheering The Nice Capades] Reference
His gown fell off in the breeze, and the bandages on his burns slipped down around his atrophied form. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
Plenty of good air there to fill lungs atrophied by long night hours in the sick atmosphere of the wards. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The optic disc becomes deeply cupped and the tissues of the optic disc and optic nerve extremely atrophied. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
The optic disc was much atrophied, the calibre of the arteries diminished and the veins full (Mr. Critchett). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The chemical composition of bones and tissue alters, joints become stiff, muscles atrophied, and bones brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Hopscotching the country, Obama has stretched campaign muscles that have atrophied a bit in the past two years. From Wordnik.com. [Obama loosens tie along campaign trail to rally Democratic votes] Reference
Some organs are said to be atrophied which were never larger and more fully developed than they now are, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Although diminishing fat it does no harm by inducing any atrophied wasting of the breast glands, or of the testicles. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
His capacity for rhetoric that is even coherent, let alone inspiriting, either has atrophied from disuse or never existed. From Wordnik.com. [Good Man . . . Wrong Job?] Reference
The technic of the operation consists in preparing the area of skin which covers the atrophied muscles as for any operation. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
I could recover nothing from beside his atrophied limbs, but the uneasy feeling that his painful end could have been avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Jayne Lyn Stahl: Confessions of a Spider Killer] Reference
The right disc is not atrophied, but the whole of the lower half of the fundus is coated with masses of black retinal pigment. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Apparatus for Exercising the Muscles -- An appliance for use by invalids requiring to exercise atrophied limbs -- 1 illustration. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887] Reference
The team of termites wheeled, and walked over to the nearest spear, trailing the feeble, atrophied legs of their rider as they went. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
Here we find an arm, the bones of the hand of which are atrophied and reduced in number, as compared with those of most other Vertebrates. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Now, under the huge globe of the brain, Jim and Denny saw exposed a small, soft mouth fringed by the tiny rudiments of atrophied mandibles. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
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