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Definition of Atrophying
1. atrophy [v] - See also: atrophy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrophying
Literary usage of Atrophying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"highly developed, and the other atrophying, according to sex. This fact, of
course, points back conclusively to primitive ancestors of fishes, reptiles, ..."
2. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception; Or, Mystic Christianity: An Elementary by Max Heindel (1911)
"It calls the pineal gland "the atrophied third eye," yet neither it nor the
pituitary body are atrophying. This is very perplexing to scientists, ..."
3. The Clinical Journal (1903)
"The first of these other two varieties is that which produces, instead of
suppuration, a peculiar atrophying inflammation of the hair- follicles ; in other ..."
4. Observations on the placenta of the rabbit by Walter Chipman (1902)
"Also masses of exudations seen between these atrophying cells and staining intense
green with safranin, are probably a degenerative product of glycogen. ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Fibrillary contractions in the atrophying muscles. Vasomotor disturbances in the
portions of the limbs atrophied. No pronounced contractions of tendons in ..."
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