atrophy

How To Use atrophy In A Sentence

• There would be a flurry of coding and decoding activity in time of war, but with the coming of peace, cryptographic knowledge and skills would atrophy and have to be relearned again at the next outbreak of hostilities.
• The duodenal mucosa showed severe villous atrophy but no subepithelial collagen deposition.
• Muscles biopsies also showed scattered atrophy consistent with the process of denervation.
• Muscles that are not used will atrophy
• Objective: To characterize the clinical and radiologic features of hemiparkinsonism- hemiatrophy syndrome (HPHA).
• The physical examination revealed a 42 mm erythematous and violaceous, irregularly bordered plaque with intermittent atrophy, hypopigmentation, and scarring.
• An MRI scan of the brain demonstrated cerebellar atrophy.
• The physical examination should focus primarily on signs of liver disease other than jaundice, including bruising, spider angiomas, gynecomastia, testicular atrophy, and palmar erythema.
• All 8 previously reported cases and the present case showed a variable degree of glandular atrophy.
• Neither a topographical relation nor a morphologic transition was seen between prostatic atrophy and histologic carcinoma or high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia.