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Definition of Atrophies
1. atrophy [v] - See also: atrophy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrophies
Literary usage of Atrophies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"Finally, Duchenne also called attention to the presence of sensory anomalies in
certain of his 1853 studies on the atrophies; these were for the most part ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"Warm baths and hot applications usually answer the purpose. PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR
atrophies PRESENTING LESIONS OF THE SPINAL GRAY HATTER. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Anatomical findings in senile dementia; a diagnostic study bearing especially on
the group of cerebral atrophies. Am. J. Insan., Baltimore, 1910, ..."
4. Text-book of Nervous Diseases by Charles Loomis Dana (1901)
"The progressive muscular atrophies of central origin may attack the motor-nerve
cells of the ... Progressive muscular Progressive bulbar palsy, atrophies of ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"Reflex Muscular atrophies not of Articular Origin.—The study of muscular atrophies
of the limbs has shown us clearly how these may sometimes be the reflex ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1911)
"The atrophies of the skin may be classified as follows: I. Idiopathic atrophy: (1)
... (b) Striae et maculae atrophies;. (c) Multiple tumorlike new growths. ..."