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His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Either they didn’t use ’em and they atrophied—or they used them too much, and they burned out.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
“Like any other appendage,” the captain tells me, “it has atrophied from lack of use.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z
“You’ve been in bed for almost a year. Your muscles have atrophied. What do you expect?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z
But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with lit­tle in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
“The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead,” she said sharply. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Our muscles have surely atrophied these past weeks.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z
They are atrophied, probably beyond hope of recovery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
He felt as if there was something atrophied between his eyes, where the base of the nose grew into the skull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
The hollow bolted around the bend, using its muscular tongues like legs, its atrophied human limbs hanging useless. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
They were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size—you could get two hands around his thighs and have your fingers touch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
I never learned any prayers, so I wander away into the fields, beyond the gates and watchtowers, as far from the barracks and bodies as my atrophied muscles will carry me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
The compression stockings were more comfortable than the bandages had been, and Sasha’s atrophied leg muscles had regained their strength. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
He hadn’t been back on a court since “Stranger Things” began filming, about six years ago when he turned 14, and was curious if his skills had atrophied. Caleb McLaughlin of ‘Stranger Things’ Slays Tennis Balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z
Social interaction was so rare that after weeks alone in my writing shed, my ability to regulate conversation atrophied: A friendly question in the post office would elicit a three-minute response. Finding His Flock: A Rural Writer’s Book Club 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z
His arms were atrophied sticks, his hands those of a young child. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z
The satire is sagging, the irony's atrophied and the funny is flabby. Sex and the City 2: what did the critics think? 2010-05-26T19:00:00Z
But its glorious, snow-capped visuals aside, The Hateful Eight comes off as haggard and atrophied. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z
This is the longest I’ve gone in my life without singing in a group, and an entire wing of my spirit has atrophied, so I listen to the pop music theory show “Strong Songs.” How a TV Critic Turned to Podcasts During a Pandemic 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z
Blame Fox News, blame Infowars, blame the rise of Donald Trump — whatever mechanism of good manners used to direct traffic between people’s darkest thoughts and their big mouths has atrophied. Perspective | ABC wanted a contrarian on mainstream TV. Roseanne was never right for the job. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z
It results in my optic nerve becoming inflamed; over time with so much inflammation they just sort of atrophied. The Blind Chef Triumphs: Christine Ha, MasterChef's Surprise Finalist, Talks Underdogs and Inspirations 2012-09-05T11:55:08Z
Others are circumspect, our social skills atrophied and our inhibitions increased in response to a lethal disease. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Meets the Hot Vax Summer 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z
And I wanted to shrivel that feeling inside of her until it atrophied and died. This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z
When the umpteenth atrophied national tour of “Grease” had come through town, in a sorry state, I had interviewed Jacobs at an Einstein Bros. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z
USA Today called it a "mortifying mess", New York magazine "an epic eyesore," and the Los Angeles Times said "the satire is sagging, the irony's atrophied and the funny is flabby." "Sex and the City 2" loses zing but still lures fans 2010-05-27T20:39:00Z
Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA Since 1971, Davos has been the playground of the rich and powerful, a small Swiss resort that once a year hosts a glittering party for hypertrophied egos and atrophied minds. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review 2012-11-15T08:00:06Z
James Lord, the biographer, was—to me—a remarkable man whose life did not become atrophied, though his friends found him secretive and devious. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
In Ball’s account, Nancy Pelosi is as tough as bullets and knows how to count votes, negotiate and herd her tribe — lost skills in American politics, atrophied in the modern-day rush to preen and tweet. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z
I blame the pandemic, changing bodies and atrophied social skills, though those are just working theories that lead to more questions. For the (Renewed) Love of Vintage Dressing 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z
But she learned to live with my limitations — those caused by my atrophied muscles, my respiratory distresses and myriad external obstacles and attitudes — through real-world, on-the-job training. How 30 Blocks Became 30 Years 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
“Wideman’s stories have a wary, brooding spirit, a lonely intelligence. They carry a real but atrophied affection for America.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z
At the deeper end of the pool is traditional watchdog work, especially important at a time when investigative reporting at local newspapers is atrophied by staff cuts. The ‘I-team’ is back — and it might help save local TV news 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z
He hints at affairs and talks of "atrophied" marriage proposals. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z
Crucially, the atrophied loft of the first act is transformed into a thrilling space — an architects' office, which once sat on the same spot. Three stars for drafty 'Three Days of Rain' at Viaduct 2011-05-25T21:37:21Z
The show really does threaten to become a tragedy as we realize with each step, with each episode, with each season, Jimmy McGill comes closer to being this calcified, morally atrophied Saul Goodman character. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould on ‘Better Call Saul,’ Bob Odenkirk and Fan Tattoos 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z
“Suddenly it was taking me hours to memorize something. It was like that muscle atrophied, so I was terrified.” Hayden Panettiere, Hoping to Leave Her Struggles Behind, Is Back Onscreen 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z
The knights are a religious cult that has atrophied into decadence. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z
“All of my upper-body muscles atrophied and so it was necessary to rebuild them,” he says. 'It seems so simple': can I cut it at the World Stone Skimming Championships? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z
They carry a real but atrophied affection for America. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z
I don’t want my life to be an atrophied organ. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z
When he came out of it, he had to rehab to build up the muscles that had atrophied. After 30 years, Horace & Dickie’s is saying goodbye to a neighborhood its owner no longer recognizes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z
Because the violin is much lighter than the viola, my atrophied arm muscles were able to hold it. A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time. Here's what it's like in a world without time 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z
Some time in the next few years, when the acrimony has atrophied, Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson will share a public hug on the Lumen Field turf and exchange genuine smiles. Nobody in the NFL can maintain relationships with players like Pete Carroll 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z
Over time, his muscles atrophied from disuse and he also needed physical therapy. Long COVID is debilitating children. Doctors worry there aren’t enough centers to treat them 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z
He abides in aggression because the rest of the emotional range has either atrophied or failed to develop in the first place. DeSantis' star sets while Ramaswamy's rises | Charles M. Blow 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z
During a hearing in June, the jailed man said the muscles in his legs had atrophied so much that he needed a wheelchair and couldn’t lift his arms over his head. American fugitive who faked death can be extradited to Utah to face rape charge, UK judge says 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z
The result is atrophied social skills and erosion of connections that bridged divides. Granderson: It's not just Mark Taper Forum. Since the pandemic, this nation is coming unglued 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z
The first generations of Muslim rulers accepted Zoroastrians as People of the Book like Jews and Christians, but that acceptance atrophied over time. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
Her world atrophied, limited almost entirely to her own home. A school shooting left a 7-year-old terrified to go back. At 13, she found a way.
Whether they are 5, or 8, or 14, losing almost two years’ practicing these life skills atrophied students’ intellectual and emotional inner lives. Education through the COVID-19 looking glass | My Take 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z
“Years of restraint, cost cutting, downsizing and deferred investment have meant that Canada’s defense capabilities have atrophied,” said 60 signatories, who included several former Canadian defense ministers, military commanders, and security and intelligence officials. Trudeau told NATO that Canada will never meet spending goal, Discord leak shows 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z
The best case for these bills is that passing them would begin to rebuild atrophied congressional muscles. Opinion | Congress gingerly begins to reclaim its powers. Let this become a trend. 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z
He has foot drop, which causes his toes to drag, because the muscles controlling the top of his foot atrophied while he was in the coma. After cops nearly killed him, he’s being charged — again 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z
As labor unions atrophied, hollowing out systems for training and retraining, workers without college educations saw their bargaining power reduced in the face of machines capable of rudimentary tasks. Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job? 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z
He noted that North Korea's conventional ground forces "have atrophied over time" as Kim has advanced his nuclear weapons and missile programs. North Korea doesn't appear poised for imminent nuclear test, US official says 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z
We also did not know that the Russian military had atrophied to such an extent. "Putin shows no sign of stopping": One year later, massive death toll 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z
Their recovery has also included forms of physical therapy — cat play — to help restore muscles atrophied from malnutrition. Mountain lion cubs Holly and Hazel becoming friends and building their fan base 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z
Staffing at U.S. embassies, which conduct visa interviews in other countries, had also atrophied. Immigration Rebound Eases Shortage of Workers, Up to a Point 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z
But that system, which has atrophied for decades amid the destruction of news economies, appears to have failed completely this time. A tiny paper broke the George Santos scandal but no one paid attention 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z
But that goal may be too ambitious for a sector that has atrophied during the pandemic. Japan reopens to tourists with shuttered souvenir shops, hotel staff shortage 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z
A muscle from her leg was carefully positioned over the atrophied muscle in her left cheek. Her Face Started Drooping. What Was Wrong? 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z
Most of today’s baseball players appear to have atrophied into uni-dimensional hitters who swing for the fences and strike out at a rate that has risen 50% in the last 16 years. Letters to Sports: USC isn't the best college football team in the nation 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z
It is common for a limb in a cast to show atrophied muscles when the cast is removed, and certain diseases, such as polio, show atrophied muscles. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z
A month later, when the brace finally came off, my core and back muscles were almost completely atrophied. Perspective | I swam back from a bad fall. Adversity made me better. 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z
His facial muscles atrophied; doctors soon found that even his eyelids were weak. Chris Snow Finds That His Luck, Good and Bad, Is All in the Family 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z
At that rate, it would take years to source the money to pay for Spinraza, and in the meantime, Dylan was growing weaker as his muscles atrophied. With a $2.1 Million Cure Their Only Hope, Parents Plead for Help Online 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z
For years, unemployment hovered chronically at 8 percent or more as the industrial sector atrophied. For Macron, France’s Troubled Industries Hit Home 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z
Instead, presidents atrophied support because they undermined their own democratic credentials in a context of rising instability and - in the case of Burkina Faso and Mali - jihadist insurgencies. Democracy in Africa: Spate of coups don't mean democracy's end 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z
The ocean summoned up in The Sea Around Us is an alien world, where “strange and fantastic” creatures lurk in its darkest recesses, their “eyes atrophied or abnormally large, their bodies studded with phosphorescent organs.” Rachel Carson’s Explorations of the Sea, the Human Relationship with Elephants, and More 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z
The unit atrophied under Mr. Martelly’s presidency, the government using the B.I.M. to provide personal protection to officials and their family members and to guard government buildings. As Gangs’ Power Grows, Haiti’s Police Are Outgunned and Underpaid 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z
But those senators’ gavels have atrophied over the last 15 years. Analysis | A blueprint for a more productive Senate, or an exception that proves dysfunction and division still rule? 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z
Jet fuel demand declined sharply and supply chains atrophied during the coronavirus pandemic, according to aviation supply companies, jet fuel transport companies and others. Nevada airport faces flight delays from jet fuel shortage 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z
The transfer process, which was pursued by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, had atrophied under Donald J. Trump. Biden Administration Transfers Its First Detainee From Guantánamo Bay 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z
Each returned to Earth with slightly atrophied muscles and other deleterious physiological effects from their extended stay in near-zero gravity. New Space Radiation Limits Needed for NASA Astronauts, Report Says 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z
Airport officials, aviation supply companies and jet fuel transport companies said jet fuel demand declined sharply and supply chains atrophied during the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Scary’: Fuel shortage could ground firefighting aircraft 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z
"During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart," he wrote. No, billionaires won’t "escape" to space while the world burns 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z
After months of deep sedation, he is delirious, his muscles atrophied. Opinion | They Survived Covid. Now They Need New Lungs. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z
“It didn’t become dysfunctional, the excess capacity didn’t get reduced to a critical level. He remained reasonably fit. His heart shrank and atrophied kind of as you’d expect from going into space.” Note to Future Space Travelers: Prepare for a Shrinking Heart 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z
Politics, under the assault, has atrophied into a tawdry reality show centered on manufactured political personalities. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z
For a woman in Boston, her body — no longer able to move — became so atrophied and frail that a slight fall sent her into a death spiral of hospitalizations, her doctor said. Pandemic isolation has killed thousands of Alzheimer’s patients while families watch from afar 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z
Even to the overwhelming majority of white Americans, the Republican Party offers nothing with the sole exception of rhetorical massages for their atrophied egos — the ignorant insistence that they are the "real Americans." There's only one political party in the United States — the other one has descended into madness 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z
Abortion is different – the muscles of this argument never atrophied, because the fight was never over. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death means pro-choicers have a fight on their hands | Zoe Williams 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z
A Bostonian woman became so atrophied and frail that a slight fall sent her to the hospital multiple times. Coronavirus isolation killing thousands of Alzheimer’s patients 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z
There, it withered and its budget atrophied, even amid the surge of security spending after 9/11. Perspective | The federal crackdown in Portland is ‘legal.’ That’s the problem with it. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z
Everytown’s success has come as the National Rifle Association’s financial muscle has atrophied. Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group Pours $15 Million Into Races in 8 States 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z
Llacsa’s sessions with Kuschert began in February, mainly as physical assessments — what she could and couldn’t do, how much the years in bed had atrophied her muscles. Naperville woman’s journey through rare spinal fluid leak 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z
The calf on my injured leg atrophied like crazy and is still about a half-inch smaller than my other one. Breanna Stewart’s Comeback Is Going to Take a Little Longer 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z
These are lost skills in American politics, atrophied in the modern-day rush to preen and tweet. Review | Nancy Pelosi is an anachronism — in a good way 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z
Yet even as major drug companies push aggressively to find a vaccine for COVID-19, other parts of their businesses have atrophied. Earnings season is in full swing and uncertainty is certain 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z
Nevi said his right hand was atrophied and he walked with a limp. ‘He was all about fun’: Family, friends mourn man fatally shot at Renton homeless camp 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z
Unfortunately, rather than continue to improve upon the Saturn V, American political will atrophied and the nation receded from its spacefaring ambitions. Escaping the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z
And the printed vocal tract does not precisely match the living version: the researchers point out that Nesyamun’s tongue has atrophied, and his soft palate is missing. 3-D Printing Gives Voice to a 3,000-Year-Old Mummy 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z
Ernst worried that the separatism in Chechnya could spread, and believed that Russia’s institutions of power were atrophied and vulnerable to collapse. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z
The frontal lobe of his brain had atrophied and the lateral ventricles were enlarged. A troubled ex-USC football star died at 31. His family hoped that studying his brain for CTE would help others 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z
Nowhere is our country’s atrophied capacity to imagine better more apparent than in the political class’s response to the climate emergency. Brexit? This election is about something much bigger than that | Ash Sarkar 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z
On Saturday, Trump’s fourth national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, promised to bring back some of the bureaucratic structure that had atrophied under Bolton. In Trump’s Washington, the rogue actors are the real players — and the experts are increasingly irrelevant 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z
To prevent future disasters, their goal was to strengthen the regulatory oversight that had atrophied over time. The Case Against Boeing 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z
Not surprisingly, political support and funding atrophied as a result. The International Space Station Is More Valuable than Many People Realize 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z
The National Governors Association has atrophied; its members attract less national attention than they once did. Analysis | These are frustrating days for governors seeking the presidency 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z
Was the larger issue with 2016 the culture, or was it that the Republican Party had changed or atrophied? The White House Chronicler Tim Alberta on Palace-Intrigue Journalism and Donald Trump’s Takeover of the G.O.P. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z
As of ten years ago, apartments in various atrophied East Berlin neighborhoods had smog-emitting wood-burning stoves and shared water closets in the hallways. The Causes and Consequences of Berlin’s Rapid Gentrification 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z
Reciting fragments of Rudyard Kipling’s poem Mandalay on a visit to a Buddhist temple in Myanmar in 2017 suggests that a nostalgic imperial vision still lurks in that atrophied adolescent brain. Calling the French ‘turds’ shows Boris Johnson is the eternal spoilt 15-year-old | Stephen Moss 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z
His arm muscles atrophied and his nerve endings were so severely damaged it required multiple surgeries to fix. Comedian Chris Kattan talks addiction, his 'Saturday Night Live' audition 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z
In Cradle 9293, a girl winces and kicks out an atrophied leg. A billion dots of light 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
When he autopsied the mice, he was astonished to find atrophied muscles, brittle bones and atherosclerosis. One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge Your Brain. Who Should Get It? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z
But that system has atrophied in recent years, with few major candidates willing to abide by its spending limits. House Democrats poised to endorse public financing of congressional campaigns 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z
Once a world leader, Britain’s nuclear industry atrophied after serious accidents in Ukraine and the United States spurred broad resistance to nuclear power. For Wales, Nuclear Plant Would Mean New Jobs. For the U.K., It May Mean More. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z
So what if my pelvic ligaments are too loose and the muscles connected to them too tight or too weak or atrophied or whatever it is they are? ‘A crunch. A rip. Pain spread like a stain’: my lifetime of back trouble | Maggie O'Farrell 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z
“Many of the skills necessary to plan for and conduct military operations against capable adversaries — especially China and Russia — have atrophied,” the report said. U.S. Military’s Global Edge Has Diminished, Strategy Review Finds 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z
Their political resurgence has helped repopulate local and state Democratic parties, many in suburban and conservative stretches of the country, that had atrophied during the Obama years. 'Appetite for change': divided Democrats prepare for midterm elections 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z
David Salamone wore a brace on his atrophied right leg and had difficulty walking. David Salamone, who contracted polio from vaccine and helped spur changes in U.S. immunization policy, dies at 28 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z
And university students increasingly have difficulty in examinations because their handwriting has atrophied. What’s the biggest influence on the way we think? (Googling it won’t help) | John Naughton 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z
Its defensive talent base has atrophied over the past few seasons, undermined by meager drafts and stagnated development. The N.F.L.’s Most Interesting Division? The N.F.C. West 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z
At all ages, the mice developed severe motor and behavioral deficits and progressive brain pathology: The animals’ thalami—sensory and motor signal relay stations—became calcified, and their brains atrophied. ‘I feel so much hope’—Is a new drug keeping this woman’s deadly Huntington disease at bay? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z
The taller one, her curly hair cut into a triangular bob, was smoothing a vitamin E rose-scented ointment over the patient’s atrophied legs. My Patient’s Sisters 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z
Investment atrophied as private fixed investment fell to just over a third of its historical norm for the postwar era. Trump’s Trade Threats Are Hurting Growth 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z
For nearly 10 years, her health deteriorated and her spirit atrophied. Stories of Resilience Inspired Readers to Support Neediest Cases Fund 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z
The inactive older peoples’ thymus glands also were atrophied, compared to those of the younger group. How Exercise Can Keep Aging Muscles and Immune Systems ‘Young’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
So we then pushed the idea that the sickness of the creature has either totally atrophied the flesh off its face, or there’s just a thin coating of skin over the skull. How Annihilation’s VFX team created those terrifying mutant creatures 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z
After the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia’s conventional capabilities atrophied quickly. New threat, new weapons 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z
Shiffrin visited her weak, atrophied friend as much as her burgeoning skiing career allowed. Thomas Walsh beat cancer, took gold medal skier Mikaela Shiffrin to the prom and is eyeing Paralympics – LA Times 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z
Our ability to do anything else, only exercised in short bursts, is like a muscle that has atrophied. Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z
Eventually the story faded, though, in part because it was superseded by other stories, but also, I think, because the Russian ad story was deeply distasteful to both sides of our atrophied political debate. The Russian Facebook scandal damages liberals as much as the right | Thomas Frank 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z
But the division, which was absent a clear leader for most of the year, atrophied with her in a key position. Omarosa Manigault Newman to Leave White House Job Next Month 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z
The bear's thin frame and protruding bones are clear indicators of this, and its atrophied muscles suggest it's been starving for an extended period of time. Your Questions About Our Starving Polar Bear Video Answered 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z
And they didn’t have much of a community to support them; domestic women’s distance running was fractious and atrophied. Opinion | How the ‘Shalane Flanagan Effect’ Works 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z
The septum pellucidum, a small membrane between the two halves of the brain, was atrophied to the point that it looked withered and fragile, even perforated. On the Table, the Brain Appeared Normal 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z
The efforts seek to revamp a war-fighting structure that atrophied in the peacetime years after the Cold War. Facing Russian threat, NATO boosts operations for the first time since the Cold War 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z
Stanley agrees with critics that the arms atrophied during tyrannosaur evolution, with the giant jaws taking over their grasping function. T. Rex’s Tiny Arms May Have Been Vicious Weapons 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z
The number of Democratic statehouses atrophied significantly under his presidency, with 34 Republican governors and 26 states where Republicans control the executive and legislative branches. Murphy and New Jersey Voters Can Get U.S. Back on Track, Obama Says 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z
The way in which all the reporting tricks I had ever known atrophied in the South. Slouching towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on life in America's south 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z
Which is a reason — exercising atrophied institutional sinews — for hoping it happens. Opinion | Trump may awaken a slumbering Congress 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z
Years of mismanagement, Mr. Hoffman said, had “essentially atrophied” the start-up and it was always running a deficit. Using Silicon Valley Tactics, LinkedIn’s Founder Is Working to Blunt Trump 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z
Are Congress’s constitutional powers regarding war so atrophied that it supinely hopes for mere post facto notification? Opinion | Will Trump lower the nuclear bar? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z
Mr. Putin played a bad hand well with the weak, incompetent Obama administration, watching as American power atrophied around the world and President Obama coddled her enemies. Vladimir Putin’s unhappy callers reveal a leader’s dilemma 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z
A source close to the strikers said their muscles had atrophied. Two Turkish teachers on 75-day hunger strike detained by police 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z
For Charles Darwin, our atrophied sense of smell was a mark of evolutionary advancement beyond our ape ancestors. Don’t be sniffy if you smell like a dog 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z
The discovery inspired Freud’s belief that human sexual repression may be linked to our “usually atrophied” sense of smell. Not to be sniffed at: human sense of smell rivals that of dogs, says study 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z
He was emaciated, anemic, heartworm positive, blind in one eye, had a lung infection, and his back muscles were atrophied from lack of use. Geriatric dogs get care at Michigan animal hospice 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z
The giant animal barely eats; its mouth, deep in the mud, is capped shut, and its digestive system is tiny, all but atrophied. The Loch Ness Monster of Mollusks 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z
At a $450 course in mindfulness-based stress reduction, I learned to befriend painful stretches and breathe new life into atrophied muscles without injuring myself. Ping-Pong as the Fountain of Youth 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z
The Islamic Republic currently relies heavily on missiles because its Air Force, which has had limited access to new warplanes, atrophied after the 1979 Revolution. Trump Puts Iran "On Notice" 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
The two relied on low-impact weight training — light dumbbells and resistance bands — to target his atrophied muscles and massage away the lingering hardened scar tissue. A Big-Wave Great Ponders the Surf After the Wipeout of a Lifetime 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
“The femur healed, but being on crutches for three months led to imbalances. My left side is super strong, but my right side atrophied tremendously.” A Tough Mudder Learns to Listen to Her Pain 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z
Intent on reviving and expanding New York’s atrophied hostel business — which they say could enhance the city’s appeal to youthful tourists — the visitors were sizing up thousands of square feet of commercial space and warehouses. Hostel Business Wants to Make a Push Back Into New York 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z
We increase the size of our atrophied muscle fibers with exercise but, for a variety of physiological reasons, do not add to the number of fibers, Dr. Bamman says. Can You Regain Muscle Mass After Age 60? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z
The military is also an atrophied limb, with a 2014 parliamentary report detailing a shocking state of disrepair. How Trump’s victory is causing Europe to rethink its security 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
I think a lot of those have atrophied in the digital era. Meet the Mastermind Behind This Summer's Pokémon Craze 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z
Over the past half-century, Africa’s mostly colonial railways have mostly atrophied. Puffed out 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z
Instead, Monday's show atrophied in the performances, which seemed to slow to a crawl any time someone under the age of 40 appeared onstage. The young acts including Bieber and the Weeknd drained all the energy from the Grammys 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z
Rhetoric is still defiant, but public zealotry has atrophied. Cuba and Iran, Melancholy Twins 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z
And efforts to train and recruit young trade workers atrophied in past years as many school districts focused less on certain vocational training. Labor Shortage Pinches Home Builders 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z
Their outreach muscles have atrophied to such an extent that they no longer function – and GOP lawmakers don’t even think to try to use them. GOP lawmakers are often their own worst enemy 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z
Her left hand is atrophied and isn’t much help to her. Mississippi dancer won’t give up after near-death fall 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z
His atrophied right arm was barely able to lift the prototype prosthesis, but that was to be expected; it would grow stronger once the prosthetic hand was in place. For Africa’s hunted albino children, new limbs and new hope 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z
Yet the Soviet Union, with its very rigid and atrophied economy, badly needed cooperation with the free world, which Nixon was prepared to offer. Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z
The sacral sense – the traditional basis of religion, entailing humility and self-restraint – has atrophied even where the churches, mosques and temples are full. How to think about Islamic State 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z
This male’s trunk is “unusually thin,” Poole says, “almost as if it the muscles have atrophied. Small wounds are visible.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
His once solid frame is now sapped, his muscles atrophied after months in hospital. Hard-hit Gaza neighborhood still trying to recover from war 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z
Assimilation atrophied Polish, Italian, German and other languages which once reverberated around US cities. Reports of English's demise in US have been greatly exaggerated, experts say 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z
“It’s all atrophied. We haven’t gone through the muscle movements of a conventional attack in Europe for decades.” NATO Returns Its Attention to an Old Foe, Russia 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z
“Clearly, whatever political capital that Hillary Clinton had previously enjoyed as secretary of state has atrophied,” said pollster Neil Newhouse, who is likely to work for Right to Rise, the pro-Jeb Bush super PAC. Clinton rivals pounce as her ratings fall 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z
This male’s trunk is “unusually thin,” Poole says, “almost as if it the muscles have atrophied. Small wounds are visible.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
Iran will take decades not years to rebuild its atrophied conventional military capabilities. After the nuclear deal 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z
As a result, GOP candidates have embraced anew a muscular foreign policy that had atrophied for much of the Obama presidency. The Iraq Question That Trips Up GOP Candidates 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z
Now 62, he has a handsome face set atop an atrophied body. Can horse racing be cleaned up? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z
Their gut linings atrophied, and they made fewer kinds of blood cells. In Short-Lived Fish, Secrets to Aging 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z
This male’s trunk is “unusually thin,” Poole says, “almost as if it the muscles have atrophied. Small wounds are visible.” Photos Show Sad Plight for African Elephants Lifted to China 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z
When the family lived in Panama, Mr. Alexander often brought Fitz to the beach and buried him in sand in an effort to compress and exercise his atrophied muscles. Regaining His Health to Be There for His Children 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z
The legislative branch still exists, of course, but its capacity for governing has atrophied to a level with no modern precedent. Congress, deal-making, and how the sausage gets made 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z
Abu Zubaida’s capture also exposed the extent to which any CIA expertise in interrogation — much of which argued against the use of coercive methods — had atrophied since the Vietnam War. Rise and fall of CIA’s overseas prisons traced in Senate report on interrogations 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z
Marley went to see another doctor who, shocked by the toe's atrophied appearance, conducted a biopsy and diagnosed Marley with melanoma. Skin colour: No hiding in the dark : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z
By the time our descendants reached our nearest star, their bones and muscles would be so atrophied they wouldn’t be able to walk on an earth-like planet. Are Human Beings The Highest Life Form? 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z
Rice said the new Iraqi government was rebuilding armed forces which had “atrophied” under the sectarian rule of the former president, Nouri al-Maliki, and that there was no need for US ground troops. McCain urges ground troops to defeat Isis: 'They're winning, and we're not' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z
The dredging of two major shipping routes, the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, invited saltwater into the wetlands’ atrophied heart. The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z
Fruit flies with mutations in it have atrophied muscles, and in people, similar mutations lead to frequent muscle cramps. One hundred and one monarch genomes reveal surprising history of this long-distant migrant 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z
Her muscles atrophied and her legs no longer were able to bear her meager weight. Lebanon ill-equipped to handle mental-health issues of Syrian refugee children
And for more than a year, as his legs atrophied and he begged to go home, she was unable to get him out: No home health agency would take him. Family Fights Health Care System for Simple Request: To Die at Home 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z
It’s a question which replays eternally in the atrophied brains of web marketing experts everywhere – it was, after all, a critical juncture in search engine history which will echo throughout the ages. Content marketing is ruining the web. Its decline will be poetic justice 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
We passed homes that had atrophied, with verandas folded in like a broken-brimmed hat or the entire thing sunken as if made from wax. The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z
Dethloff said Angus’ hind legs became so atrophied that he couldn’t walk. ‘Canine ambassador’ at Grand Island shelter dies 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z
And he wasn't, shooting a 3-over 74 that was a tale of competitive rust and an atrophied short game. Dissecting Tiger Woods' post-surgery swing: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z
Now they are hoping to flex political muscles long atrophied after supporting Senator Thad Cochran on Tuesday in his runoff victory against a Tea Party challenger. Blacks Regain Sway at Polls in Mississippi 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z
While his body atrophied, Moore’s mind went into overdrive. Bronco back 6 months after emergency surgery 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
By the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the closely held company had atrophied to fewer than 500 employees generating only $50 million in annual sales. Why Colt Can't Shoot Straight 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
The resulting expression stimulated regeneration of spiral ganglion neurites, which had atrophied 2 weeks after ototoxic treatment, in a bilateral sensorineural deafness model. [Research Articles] Close-Field Electroporation Gene Delivery Using the Cochlear Implant Electrode Array Enhances the Bionic Ear 2014-04-29T14:57:47.542Z
The success of Obama and the Democrats in 2008, it argues, “led not to the redoubling of interest on the progressive side religion but quite the opposite … engagement with religion atrophied.” The religious left is struggling. Can the cause of economic justice help it rise again? 2014-04-24T09:30:00Z
With what was left of my atrophied leg muscles, I jumped to volunteer. Well: Finding the Right Pace on a Treadmill Desk 2014-03-10T23:07:30Z
The minimum wage has languished, labor rights have atrophied, and now a quarter of Americans toil in the low-wage work swamp, where they make so little they’re eligible for public assistance. The right’s hopes are dashed: Why there’s no civil war among Democrats 2014-02-19T16:37:00Z
Beings Not Made for Space: swelled heads, atrophied limbs, radiation threats all take their toll on human body. Physics Week in Review: February 1, 2014 2014-02-01T10:31:29Z
In this model, delivery of a control -only vector failed to restore neuron structure, with atrophied neurons indistinguishable from unimplanted cochleae. [Research Articles] Close-Field Electroporation Gene Delivery Using the Cochlear Implant Electrode Array Enhances the Bionic Ear 2014-04-29T14:57:47.542Z
Most severely atrophied are the prefrontal and temporal lobes, areas critical for executive function and memory. Creativity, Madness and Drugs 2013-11-22T17:45:04.517Z
Anderson’s childhood interest in robotics atrophied over time because he just couldn’t find a community of others who were as taken with the field as he was. Facebook + Twitter + Google Communities = Narvii 2013-11-14T21:30:00Z
Dissidents were tortured or bought off, ministers stole entire budgets, government atrophied. Too rich for its own good 2013-10-09T00:48:24Z
But all of her leg muscles are severely atrophied. Paralyzed Woman Walks Again, with the Aid of a Robot 2013-09-24T21:45:08.840Z
“It’s sad,” he said, “that the working waterfront has atrophied to the point where we sometimes feel like an endangered species.” Waterborne Workhorses Time Staten Island’s Tides 2013-07-31T03:36:12Z
What remained was a sad, diminished spectacle that revealed the atrophied state of our press corps and candidate pool. Smile! One of You Will Be the Next Mayor of New York 2013-07-25T15:17:11Z
The city's population fell 25 percent in the past decade to around 700,000, atrophied police and fire departments are ill-equipped to battle crime and arson, and basic infrastructure and city services desperately need repair. Despite mutual dislike, Michigan may need Detroit 2013-07-23T19:39:45Z
Martin’s right leg is atrophied, and it throbs day and night. Casey Martin Tees It Up Again for U.S. Open 2013-06-01T13:53:42Z
He was greeted with a recliner and a blanket, ready to cradle his thinner bones and atrophied muscles. The Triumph of Commander Hadfield Is A Triumph For Science Communication 2013-05-15T14:45:02.143Z
He worked on the musculature to support his knees by building up the thigh and calf muscles on his right leg that had atrophied through over-compensating on the left. Gary Stevens: 'Everybody knows the Kentucky Derby. It's America's race' 2013-04-03T15:20:00Z
Some economists have argued that the crisis itself undermined potential by starving innovative companies of financing and driving some workers, whose skills have atrophied from long spells of unemployment, out of the labour force. Free exchange: Where did everyone go? 2013-03-21T16:02:18Z
Decades later, grandfather's atrophied brain found its way into a jar on my father's office desk. Well: Waiting for Alzheimer's to Begin 2013-01-31T05:01:34Z
But Lewis, whose right arm has atrophied after having surgery Oct. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis to miss Sunday's game against New York Giants | NFL 2012-12-23T03:33:04Z
The muscles around the knee that atrophied after the surgery needed to be recalibrated, with quadriceps, hamstrings and calves in the proper strength proportion to one another. Vikings still wowed by Peterson's rapid recovery 2012-12-21T01:14:13Z
But Merkel is taking tentative steps toward flexing Germany’s atrophied muscles, offering tantalizing clues of what Europe would look like under a stronger, more assertive Berlin. As Germany rises, Frau Nein says, ‘Yes’ 2012-09-11T23:35:39Z
What, then, is the net effect of this bewildering system, in which budgeting arises from the interplay of an atrophied legislature and a patchwork of voter decisions? California: Not quite Greek, but still weak 2012-06-14T15:06:51Z
But an infection developed in the wound, and Howard is in Florida trying to strengthen his calf, which atrophied from inactivity. On Baseball: Roy Halladay Joins Phillies’ Injury List 2012-05-30T03:39:06Z
“A lot of my legs and arms had atrophied — it was pretty ugly,” Mr. Welch says. Sitaras Fitness, Where Business Titans Work Out 2012-03-03T20:47:11Z
The date at which various critics have declared that Browning ceased to write poetry might be considered an index of the time when that critic’s powers became atrophied. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z
Taxation and credit are the big stakes today and Congress has them in its atrophied grasp. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z
The eye does not thrive in the dark, but is gradually atrophied. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z
Its inferior extremity is terminated by a round head in those animals in which the ulna is fully developed; in others, as it is atrophied, it ends in a thin, long process. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
So the party's precinct system was so atrophied in many places that Tea Party activists were easily elected delegates in 2010. Special Report: Tea Party grassroots army readies for battle 2011-12-15T05:16:02Z
His capacity for affection had become utterly atrophied for want of an object upon which to expend any of it. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z
It was atrophied long enough in me, Heaven knows! The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z
Opponents say Russia's stability is a mirage because Putin's decision to stay in power makes a brittle and atrophied political system too dependent on one man. Analysis: Putin invokes history's lions for return to Kremlin 2011-11-01T11:30:00Z
The rudimentary metacarpals are vestiges of atrophied digits, as will be explained further on. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
She sat between his legs, leaning against him as his atrophied muscles strained to hold their weight. An easy sale 2011-10-26T17:21:27.697Z
In other words, over the course of the last century, net business investment atrophied while G.D.P. per capita increased spectacularly. Op-Ed Contributor: It?s Consumer Spending, Stupid 2011-10-26T00:49:35Z
She had been indefatigable in training him, drawing out his atrophied faculties. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z
Unless we preserve these model proofs, or unless we supply them with a syllabus, the habit of correct, succinct self-expression, which is one of the chief assets of geometry, will tend to become atrophied. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z
The fibula is more or less developed according to the species; in some it is complete, in others it is very much atrophied. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
Microscopically, it is seen that the tubules are atrophied, the Bowman's capsules are, as a rule, thickened, and the glomeruli are shrunken or have been replaced by fibrous tissue. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z
Shepherd's research caught the attention of the U.S. space program, which was struggling with the problem of astronauts fainting upon returning to Earth, and suffering from reduced bone mass and atrophied muscles due to weightlessness. John Shepherd, cardiovascular expert, dies at 92 2011-10-07T17:21:38Z
The brain still functioned brilliantly in the atrophied body; the lightning-like wit still struck unerringly; it spared not even himself. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z
Is it not likely that his ancestral aptitudes have atrophied or decayed? The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z
This muscle is but of slight importance from our point of view, for it is extremely atrophied, and so much the more as the number of the digits is lessened. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
The offense that was Seattle's signature in the Super Bowl season of 2005 had aged and atrophied. The Seahawks full of new, mostly young faces on offense 2011-09-08T01:11:14Z
So we are working with people at Johns Hopkins, using these devices to monitor and stimulate in the context of physical rehabilitation of atrophied muscles. Electronic 'tattoo' may monitor vital organ functions 2011-09-01T04:28:07Z
It was during this period of indifference, of atrophied emotions, and moral inertia, that her second child was born to her,—a son. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z
He and his wife said his muscles had atrophied, his red blood cell count was still down, and the lining of his colon had become a layer of dead tissue, unable to absorb nutrients. '30 days of hell' for US victim of German E. coli 2011-07-22T22:01:04Z
It is for this reason that, even in those quadrupeds in which the ulna is atrophied, the olecranon process presents a relatively considerable degree of development. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
It is so long since he relied on the warnings of hearing, that by a well-known law the muscles have fallen into disuse and atrophied. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z
People may rely on their mobile phones to remember friends' and family members' phone numbers, for example, but the part of the brain responsible for such memorization has not been atrophied, she says. Piece of Mind: Is the Internet Replacing Our Ability to Remember? 2011-07-14T20:15:27.540Z
Its factions are more deeply divided; its muscle memory for give-and-take atrophied long ago. Conspiracy of Two 2011-07-14T09:55:00Z
He knew himself to be capable of better things, and feared lest the higher faculties of his mind should become atrophied by lack of exercise. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z
The spine is atrophied at both its extremities, so that at its inferior part we do not find the acromion process. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
Through this halting gait, the muscles of the back on the same side were also spared and thus became somewhat atrophied. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z
In the emeu the wing is less atrophied than in the cassowary, but is not yet completely degenerate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z
How wondrous must be the beauty when a glimpse of it suffices to hasten the blood through shrivelled veins, and provoke tempestuous currents to awake atrophied nerves! Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z
Brings into action some muscles of his soul that might otherwise have atrophied from disuse.” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z
It follows from what has been said that the digit which persists in the equine species should be considered as the third finger, and that the rudimentary metacarpals represent lateral digits considerably atrophied. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
And thus the active faculties of listeners, without which one cannot assimilate music, gradually become atrophied from lack of use. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z
Tea Party activists in many states describe with contempt an "atrophied" Republican Party machine that in some places they have taken over or ignored entirely. Special report: Stuck between the Tea Party and a hard place 2011-05-17T12:13:01Z
But that side of her nature which was restrained, and which had been so atrophied, was ignorant of the generosities of love, and shrank from quick surrender. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z
My wall exercise serves to keep limber and active certain muscles that in the average man are half atrophied. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z
In the pig and the ox it is atrophied. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
They claim that fish is food for the brain, and goodness knows, you need something to develop that atrophied grey matter!” taunted Jane, reaching for the platter. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z
But we have grown of late to such a reverence for the printed word and such a reliance on it, that the old faculty of disseminating news by word of mouth has become atrophied. The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z
His right arm still hangs in a sling, numb and atrophied. Baghdad Journal: A Friendship Endures, Even Under a War?s Heavy Toll 2011-03-21T23:54:36Z
The charitable impulse is dead in every breast, and gratitude, atrophied by disuse, has no longer a place among human sentiments and emotions. Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse 2011-02-24T03:01:00.270Z
In the human species, the pinna of the ear being generally immobile, the muscles which belong to it are, very naturally, considerably atrophied. Artistic Anatomy of Animals 2011-12-17T03:00:16.893Z
The bills have amounted to the largest assault on collective bargaining in recent memory, labor experts said, striking at the heart of an American labor movement that is already atrophied. Indiana Democrats Leave State to Avoid Union Vote 2011-02-23T15:49:53Z
These processes may go on to an atrophic form of gastritis, in which the mucous membrane may be so atrophied that it is unable to secret sufficient gastric juice. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z
But by some accounts, they are like muscles in the brain, strong or atrophied, depending on exercise. At Ethics Bowl, L.I. Teenagers Debate Slippery Issues 2011-02-14T04:30:20Z
Martin-Roget's story, the intensity of feeling betrayed in that absolute, outward calm had caused a chord of sympathy to vibrate in the other's atrophied heart. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z
When the eye is destroyed the optic nerve often becomes atrophied. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z
She knew suddenly that she was, for a little while, to regain faculties that had been atrophied within her since the far, free days of her girlhood. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z
There were periods when thought and action were no longer submissive to will; his brain felt atrophied and he was sentient only to utter exhaustion. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z
On the other hand, what is exacted cuts deeper; it creates habits which overlay nature, and every faculty is atrophied that does not conform with them. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z
But gradually as she contrived to fill her lungs with the cold breath of heaven, it seemed as if a curtain was being slowly drawn away from her atrophied senses. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z
They abound in the Lepidoptera: one of the most extraordinary is that certain male butterflies have their fore-legs more or 345less atrophied, with the tibiæ and tarsi reduced to mere rudimentary knobs. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z
The north London derby would be mislabelled and atrophied, but most of the fans would get over it – many of them live miles from Tottenham already. West Ham or Spurs to the Olympic Stadium? Neither seems right 2010-12-12T14:00:00Z
His left arm has atrophied, as if he has had a stroke. Va. family struggling with son's genetic disorder faces new crisis: foreclosure 2010-09-17T04:00:00Z
But for three years after that the offense atrophied while Seattle added high-priced defensive players. 5 factors that played a role 2010-08-23T23:48:00Z
As the muscle atrophied, the cells deflated to about 40 percent of their bulked-up volume, but the number of nuclei in the cells did not change. Muscles Remember Past Glory 2010-08-18T14:54:00Z
As a result, their job market skills they had atrophied. Is New York Ready for No-Fault Divorce? 2010-06-16T05:55:00Z
Prokhorov must rebuild an atrophied roster and revive a dispirited fan base, even as the Nets awkwardly straddle two cities. Mikhail Prokhorov Is White Knight for Nets 2010-04-27T01:28:00Z
With a nature lover's atrophied sense of disgust, Connolly was happily pointing out piles of dung along the path. 2010-02-02T05:00:00Z
By the time the U.S. pulled out in 1934, Haiti's own institutions had atrophied. 2010-01-16T16:38:00Z
Devaluation isn't enough to revive a domestic manufacturing base that has atrophied amid a hostile operating environment. 2010-01-10T23:44:00Z
In certain derivative forms constituting the family Pallenidae, however, the appendages of the 2nd pair are either rudimentary or atrophied altogether. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"
A man may be a savage, a knave, a brute, but beneath every human bosom there lurk some seeds of nobility, however few and atrophied. The Gay Adventure A Romance
If the condition be not attended to, the outer condyle becomes gradually atrophied, owing to the increased weight transmitted through it, and the inner condyle becomes lengthened. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John"
For God is the fountain of life; and it is not merely the physical life that is atrophied by racial limitation. Stand Up, Ye Dead
Perhaps his atrophied senses retained enough vitality to hear the passing footsteps. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914
In senile dementia and in general paralysis the brain is shrunken and the convolutions atrophied, the increased space in the ventricles and between the convolutions being filled up with the cerebro-spinal fluid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"
If her heart had not been atrophied she would have loved the boy whom she always treated with motherly gentleness. A Bed of Roses
In fact, he felt more fear later on, but at that moment the emotions that produce fear were atrophied. The Guns of Europe
Veranya, body very short, tentacular arms atrophied in the adult, Mediterranean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
Her complete withdrawal from the struggle for existence had at last, in her negative, non-resistive mind, atrophied all the instincts of that struggle, including finally the instinct for reproduction. The Women of Tomorrow
Individual initiative, the wellspring of earlier developments in the process, became atrophied. A Living from the Land
They found that the kidneys were atrophied, an evidence of disease, and later we learned that if the kidneys are diseased morphine is retained in the system, until a poisonous dose may accumulate. A Modern Wizard
Their warnings are needless,—everything so far has gone with surprising smoothness, confirming my theory that in an atmosphere of love and gentleness the martial traits will be atrophied. Mothering on Perilous
And the gruff, overtired chief who heard her smiled and mumbled to himself, “Those of us who survive will all have new souls; old ones have atrophied and dropped off.” Leerie
They are holding My fate in that atrophied ganglion of theirs which couldn't cerebrate the functions of any single of My cells?' The Brain
It may be congenitally absent, atrophied, or the seat of a goitre, though this last condition is very rare in cases of sporadic cretinism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile"
Whether or not we were creatures of atrophied brains and distorted vision is an academic question. The Portal of Dreams
Only in this way could certain atrophied organs, like the appendix, be understood. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance
A series of vessels showing gradations from perfect handles to their atrophied representatives is shown in Fig. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436
He had anticipated death, not with the imagination of the young, but dully, through the atrophied faculties of his age, and the shock could hardly have been greater had he found his grandson without warning. Ancestors A Novel
Walking was a slow business with Joey at first because his legs had got thin and weak—partially atrophied muscles, Doc said—and it took time to make them round and strong again. To Remember Charlie By
An ectodemic invagination forms a large mucous gland on the foot, which is more or less atrophied in adult life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton"
The earthworm shrivels in the sudden sun and to leap from the city block to the depths of the woods is to suffer from the "growing pains" of awakening, atrophied senses. Old Plymouth Trails
His na�ve confession of culture showed that he was aware of his latent power, but I was not sure whether he had ever realized the stern law by which organs become atrophied by disuse. Aliens
Like long atrophied nerves and muscles her controls and electrical system once more hummed with power. If at First You Don't...
If he ever had natural affections, they have been atrophied in the pursuit of this devilish game. An Introduction to Shakespeare
It then becomes atrophied and disappears, and finally respiration in the adult is conducted by lungs alone. Eternal Life
Come, let us go forward together, for only then will God, striving for justice in humanity, restore your dead and atrophied souls. In the Heart of a Fool
The round nodes upon which these medallion-like figures are drawn are survivals of the heads or other parts of animals originally modeled in the round, but in the processes of manufacture partially or wholly atrophied. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188
He was not a man, only the blighted and cursed husk of a man, indeed, but doubly dangerous for his irresponsibility, for his atrophied small understanding. The Rustler of Wind River
His critical faculty did not become atrophied when applied to himself, as is the way of smaller critical faculties. Kildares of Storm
Ultimately, the grossest grade, becoming atrophied for the lack of activity, would drop away from him. Elementary Theosophy
Judging from what I could hear, I was led to believe that it was a little inclined to be sluggish and atrophied days and to keep you awake nights. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns)
He felt his slightly atrophied muscles luxuriate over the tissues and bones of his big frame. Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
But that the sense of beauty was wholly atrophied, I, for one, do not believe. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures
It can thus develop its personality so that it does not become etiolated and atrophied like a domestic animal. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
It is blind, and its eyes are indeed altogether atrophied. The Industries of Animals
My laugher has gone unused for so long that it's atrophied and won't work. Kid Scanlan
Dotted along these were rudimentary sucker discs, that had evidently become atrophied by the soft living of thousands of the creature's ancestors. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
The atrophied mamm�, which, in male domesticated animals, including man, have in some rare cases grown to full size and secreted milk, perhaps offer an analogous case. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2)
Without instruction and without exercise, the best hereditary dispositions will become atrophied, or will give indifferent results. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
What wonder is it that in the confirmed criminal many faculties appear to have atrophied. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science
The chemical composition of bones and tissue alters, joints become stiff, muscles atrophied, and bones brittle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930
Her waist is drawn into a shape little adapted to accommodate the organs placed there, and as the abdominal and spinal muscles are seldom brought into play they become atrophied. What a Young Woman Ought to Know
The deltoid is usually atrophied, allowing the acromion, coracoid, and great tuberosity of the humerus to stand out prominently beneath the skin. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
These wretched beings were generally so atrophied in body and mind that they were no use for anything except the weaving of silk and cotton. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
And in those very places where a pretence to culture is still kept up, we find the people more hopeless, atrophied, and discontented than in the secondary schools, where the so-called 'realistic' subjects are taught! On the Future of our Educational Institutions
They have the faculty, but when they are not allowed to act for themselves, it remains imperfectly developed or is altogether atrophied for want of exercise. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
They will not let it find its own feet, till very late, and till, as the scoffer might well say, its limbs are absolutely atrophied. The Cult of Incompetence
Murphy has practised resection of cicatricial or atrophied portions of the cauda, with end-to-end suture. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
The team of termites wheeled, and walked over to the nearest spear, trailing the feeble, atrophied legs of their rider as they went. The Raid on the Termites
Strange men, these creatures of the hundredth century, men with huge brains and tiny shriveled bodies, atrophied limbs, and slow, ponderous movements on their little conveyances. The Coming of the Ice
Even if her faculties have not atrophied for want of use, all that should have been cultivated lies latent in her; she has nothing to fall back upon, and her life is spoilt. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
The Judge’s words had stabbed Rosalind—each like a separate knife-thrust; they had plunged her into a mental vacuum in which her brain, atrophied, reeled, paralyzed. 'Firebrand' Trevison
In adolescents and adults, if the cleft is wide and the soft tissues of the palate are thin and atrophied, better physiological results may be obtained by the use of an artificial obturator or velum. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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. The Raid on the Termites
The character of third persons crumbles under that delicate and patient fingering: analysis, synthesis, rehabilitation, tender appreciation, enthusiastic definition, leave behind only a horrid quivering little heap of vain virtues and atrophied bad instincts. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
Education has not atrophied or impaired any of the fundamental faculties of woman; on the contrary, it has enhanced and enriched them. The Woman and the Right to Vote
But it was with man she had to deal—a dangerous but reasoning man with few and atrophied instincts—and with no experience in traps; and, therefore, in no dread of them. The Flaming Jewel
For the adult the contrary is true—in many cases, indeed, in consequence of experience and habit, the first moment, wherein the image should be affirmed as a reality, is only virtual, is literally atrophied. Essay on the Creative Imagination
Plenty of good air there to fill lungs atrophied by long night hours in the sick atmosphere of the wards. A Sheaf of Corn
His mind, and seemingly his soul with it, had become practically atrophied. Antony Gray,—Gardener
The thorax, the wasp-waist, the long pendulous abdomen, the atrophied center limbs folded across the wasp-waist—the whole thing was like a great white wasp without wings. Valley of the Croen
Upon removal or detachment, the underlying surface is found to be somewhat excavated, reddened, atrophied and sometimes suppurating. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
There is no reason why in the years to come hand and foot should not both be atrophied. American Sketches 1908
A test of the sincerity of his professions, and of her own feminine art—a dangerous game which she had once before thought of playing, until his cruelty had atrophied all impulse. The Secret Witness
He knew it was mad, but it was saving Nicholas from being atrophied, so he had said. Antony Gray,—Gardener
A sense, dead or atrophied in the ordinary human being, came out more strongly in him. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand
The termination is usually in gangrene of a dry character, with, in some instances, vesicles and blebs along the edges; in other cases the parts become atrophied, withered, and indurated. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
I should probably overlook her, and she would become atrophied or die of neglect or thirst. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914
In cases of chronic disease, where the muscles are atrophied and condensed, the following posterior flap method may be used with advantage. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
Also it was quite possible that a brain which had been atrophied, or practically atrophied for fifteen years, was not particularly capable of conceiving anything more enlivening. Antony Gray,—Gardener
And Frederik Grimm's weak, atrophied better self was not equal to the strain thrown upon it. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
But it was with man she had to deal — a dangerous but reasoning man with few and atrophied instincts — and with no experience in traps; and, therefore, in no dread of them. The Flaming Jewel
The mob of refugees might be likened to a beast with weak, almost atrophied legs, but with a great mouth and greater stomach. Greener Than You Think
Every part of the brain except the memory atrophied, and the wonder is that any intellectual initiative or original thinking ever appeared. The New World of Islam
Even pity becomes atrophied—or at least a reflex habit; sympathy, sorrow, remain as mechanical reactions, not spontaneous100 emotions.... Special Messenger
Even in his agony, he felt, subconsciously, far down in his atrophied soul, that the doctor's forecast as to the duration of his remorse's torture was little exaggerated. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play
The higher he had risen in the scale of greatness the more insistently and persistently had the world invaded his life, until even his appreciation of solitude had atrophied. Jewel Weed
An atrophied muscle or organ becomes soft and flabby from lack of nourishment. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
And Katherine had, in great measure, atrophied impulse, and, in eradicating personal desire, had come near destroying all spontaneity of emotion. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
It is atrophied—yours and mine and all of us—the soul has gone and mine? The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
The optic disc becomes deeply cupped and the tissues of the optic disc and optic nerve extremely atrophied. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
It may also occur in connection with atrophied kidneys, weak heart, etc. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
I alluded, above, to a distinction between a relaxed and an atrophied condition of an organ. A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
She was dazed and faint, moreover, so that her knees trembled, her sensibility, her powers of realisation and of sympathy, for the time being, atrophied. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
At the same time the column was partially atrophied. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The optic nerve is a shrunken, atrophied and insensate thread. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
In such vessels the contractility is destroyed, the middle coat atrophied and beyond repair. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Such times are almost always the result of physical debility, when the enfeebled body so reacts upon brain and spirit that no matter how vigorous the one or valorous the other, both seem atrophied. The Ffolliots of Redmarley
The taste of young children is often cited by vegetarians to demonstrate the liking of an unsophisticated palate, but the primitive instinct is not wholly atrophied in man. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
Under ordinary circumstances atrophy is exemplified by the presence of rudimentary or imperfect organs, as, for instance, in Pentstemon, Scrophularia, &c., where one stamen is atrophied. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
And several vital organs are partially or wholly atrophied. Natural Law in the Spiritual World
The wall of the aneurism is atheromatous, or calcified; the middle coat may be atrophied. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
On the side of compassion and humanity the German is, as it were, colour blind, is without musical sense, and the nerves of kindness and humanity are atrophied. The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon
Tetrapoda: applied to those butterflies in which the anterior legs are atrophied in whole or in part. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Some organs are said to be atrophied which were never larger and more fully developed than they now are, and so on. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
For many generations the power of speech still remained voluntary, but gradually the vocal organs had become atrophied, and for several hundred years the power of articulation had been wholly lost. To Whom This May Come 1898
It enables us to give the frog pressure, to restore it to its original state of activity and development when, by reason of disuse, it has become atrophied. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The court is an atrophied institution, a circus surviving in the backyard of history. Erik Dorn
Aborted: a structure developed so as to be unfit for its normal function obsolete or atrophied. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
An atrophied condition of one part is generally associated with an hypertrophied condition of another, and scarcely a change takes place in one direction, but it is associated with an inverse alteration in some other. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
So when the atrophied parts of the Roman religion had been removed, foreign elements had combined to give it a new vigor and in it themselves became modified. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
The sideward and downward streams had left him with a dangling atrophied arm and a scalded hip, so that he came down on me, with my preconceived ideas about him, like an actual lop-sided demon. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
As a result, we have no organs of hearing, for they have been atrophied from ages of disuse. Giants on the Earth
A plant carefully protected under glass from outside shocks", says Sir Jagadis "looks sleek and flourishing; but its higher nervous function is then found to be atrophied. Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches
Doing good," it has been well said, "is a faculty, like any other, that becomes weak and atrophied, palsied for lack of use. Life and Conduct
All over the surface of the body are to be found innumerable little sebaceous glands originally intended to lubricate hairs, which have now atrophied and disappeared. Preventable Diseases
But there was a third eye at the back of the head, the atrophied remnant of which is now known as the pineal gland. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
The muscles in the throat that help to produce these sounds have become atrophied—have lost their power for want of practice. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2
That part of him seemed to be atrophied for the present, but after awhile something aroused his interest. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond
Put beauty into your life, do not let your esthetic faculties, your aspiring instincts, be atrophied in your efforts to make a living. Pushing to the Front
The right disc is not atrophied, but the whole of the lower half of the fundus is coated with masses of black retinal pigment. 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
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. On the Genesis of Species
Success has not atrophied either his manners or his impulses. Lloyd George The Man and His Story
The powerful lower centers are no longer fully active, particularly the great lumbar ganglion, which is the clue to our sensual passionate pride and independence, this ganglion is atrophied by suppression. Fantasia of the Unconscious
These organs, also forming a part of a plan of organization which should comprise them, have disappeared and atrophied from constant lack of use. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
As the idea of salvation through mechanical obedience develops into a systematised scheme of life, the higher and more spiritual faculties of Man's nature become gradually atrophied by disuse. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
The Spirit of Life, O atrophied soul, In trappings of ease is not confined; That touch from Infinite Will 'neath the Whole In Nature's temple, not man's, is shrined! Lords of the North
If we continue using these artificial means of locomotion there is no doubt that the race will become atrophied in the legs but with extraordinary results. Here are Ladies
Years of circus life had atrophied that tiger's organs of resentment. Son of Power
These teeth, then, either remain concealed between the bony edges of the jaws, without appearing above, or even their gums are found to have been atrophied. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
Some of his mental faculties have become stunted and atrophied through lack of exercise. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
And she stood between these two groups, just blooming into womanhood, with her beautiful young body, and her atrophied young brain. Civilization Tales of the Orient
His mind is atrophied, in part, because lust sins against reason. A Hero and Some Other Folks
Dr. Bertholet made a microscopic examination of the reproductive glands of 75 chronic male alcoholics, and in 37 cases he found them more or less atrophied, and devoid of spermatozoa. Applied Eugenics
Some of the latter seem to be atrophied handles. Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510
One-sided growth, inharmonious growth, growth in which some faculties are hypertrophied and others atrophied, is not self-realisation. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
It is impossible unless those members of the family be senseless, atrophied, inhospitable, unkind. Foundations of World Unity
Every atrophied faculty in him suddenly started from its torpor, and his brain throbbed with the pain of the awakening.... The Fruit of the Tree
Most members of the white race have little toes that are partly atrophied, and considerably deformed. Applied Eugenics
The girl's influence had revivified a side almost atrophied by disuse. The Emigrant Trail
The lying awake and tossing on pillows—if lying awake there is—has its cause in real joys—or griefs—not in things atrophied by time. Robin
And in the hundred years since we asserted for ourselves a separate place and proper name among the nations, our college has been no palsied or atrophied limb in the national organization. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
While, on the one hand, there is over-stimulation of certain modes of sensation, others are largely or wholly atrophied. Nature Mysticism
In 1740, and even as late as 1781, they are traceable only in certain colorless articles, suggestive of the atrophied organs of a body concerning whose past use physiologists may speculate. Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy
The noble qualities of antiquity were blighted by the imitators, whose inventive powers were atrophied, while their skill and knowledge left nothing to be desired. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres
There had not been much to do; the Captain could not do a great deal; his faculties of work—if he ever had any—had atrophied for want of use. The Good Comrade
Two atrophied nostrils were situated on either side and slightly below the eyes. Warlord of Kor
If union with such an Absolute is to be enjoyed, the will must be pulseless, the intellect atrophied, the whole soul inactive: otherwise the introduction of finite thoughts and desires inhibits the divine afflatus! Nature Mysticism
The bones show a feeble shadow with the X-rays, and appear thin and atrophied; the medullary canal is increased at the expense of the cortex. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
It is glutted with sham, and atrophied by the reiteration of high-sounding but meaningless, pious phrases. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
In this way too often the imagination, the really individual part of the mind, is starved and atrophied. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine
In severe cases they may become atrophied and an eruption often appears along the course of the nerve. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
But to leave him, an innocent man, to go to his death because he was too chivalrous to betray his partner in an adventure—this was something that even Bromfield's atrophied conscience revolted at. The Big-Town Round-Up
I confess that I came out of college with my initiative atrophied. The Young Man and the World
But now a wasted brain; squandered, atrophied, gone soft with disuse. Dangerous Ages
Duty to him was a more exacting god than the black Kali to the Brahmins; it had dried up his blood—atrophied his nerves of enjoyment. Caste
I'm not exactly crippled, though I haven't used my hand for more than two months, and the muscles are slightly atrophied. The Pride of Palomar
The common characterization of this atrophied woman is that she is "cold." The Business of Being a Woman
We must realize that, as members in the Body of Christ, each of us must fulfil some function for the Kingdom, or we are not living members, but paralyzed or atrophied. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
Such cases are found in old light-harness or saddle-horses that have been more or less lame for years and where there exists marked contraction of the heels, rough hoof walls, and hard and atrophied frogs. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
He was a man who would have shrivelled up, become atrophied, in an atmosphere of decency—he would have died. Caste
The operation is as follows: Suppose that the atrophied arm is the left one. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
It seems to take many generations to redevelop an atrophied conscience. The Fertility of the Unfit
Considering how completely atrophied her muscles were from twenty years' entire disuse, this was much more than I had ventured to hope. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
The technic of the operation consists in preparing the area of skin which covers the atrophied muscles as for any operation. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Not by any supposition that the early sex instincts he felt in his boyhood were wholly animal and must be atrophied by disuse, but by gathering and directing them into the right channels. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals
I think that the sex instinct, so ready with its antagonisms, its insinuations, its alternate attacks and defenses, was atrophied as in the presence of a phenomenon. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment
But a thing atrophied as she was could not think or feel, and so he went without the small tendernesses that would have come to him had Rose, the soft little Englishwoman, lived. Captivity
They spun themselves about into all kinds of shapes, wavering and illusive, that defied the somewhat atrophied imagination of the Meanest Trustee. The Primrose Ring
Certain faculties useless for that crisis had become atrophied for the time. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
Her voice was full of tender pity, not for the crouching unhappiness before her, but for the poor atrophied soul. Red Pottage
Rome's grand assets at the start were a sense of duty, a natural turn for law and order: grand assets indeed, if the rest of the nature be not neglected or atrophied. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
It was as if some nerve—the sentimental nerve—had atrophied. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage
His spiritual sense seems atrophied and he can do nothing but estimate the bushels of fruit. The Reconstructed School
In the historical evolution of the Irish mind we find certain qualities atrophied, so to speak, by disuse; and to this cause I attribute the past failures of the race in practical life at home. Ireland In The New Century
That part of him had atrophied from lack of use, like the eyes of the mole and of those sightless fishes men take from the waters of caverns. Queed
The prestige of the Crown in Great Britain, where its functions are atrophied to a greater extent than in any other country in Europe, is one of the most striking features in contemporary English life. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement
We cannot afford to develop any one set of qualities, any one set of activities, at the cost of seeing others, equally necessary, atrophied. African and European Addresses
The root bulbs, I noticed, were shrivelled and atrophied. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
In every age of dull and monotonous routine—and all civilization involves such routine—many natural impulses and functions tend to become suppressed, atrophied, or perverted. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
Many a playwright who might have become an original dramatist had all his power of imagination and invention atrophied through disuse. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
Many of the air cells of the lungs become inactive by reason of incomplete breathing, and often become almost atrophied. The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath
In the same way then any mental faculty becomes atrophied if it is unused. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
For the first time, a statistical statement awoke an echo in Cousin Tryphena's atrophied brain. Hillsboro People
It is a plea for generous culture; for the development of all the faculties, many of which tend to become atrophied by the exclusive pursuit of single objects of thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If he was blind to some truths, he perceived others with wonderful clearness; if his sympathies in some directions were atrophied, in others they were sensitive to an extraordinary degree. Landmarks in French Literature
A careful study of these survivals or atrophied forms is not without value for the reconstruction of the earlier history of a language or for suggestive hints as to its remoter affiliations. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
This power is strongly developed in savages and barbarians, but has become atrophied in most civilized men, by continued disuse. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
The carnal side, atrophied for months, which had been stirred by the enervation of his pious readings, then brought to a crisis by the English cant, came to the surface. Against the Grain
And do not let your emotional and affectional nature grow atrophied. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters
They were a slow and uncouth Lot, with an atrophied Sense of Humor, and the Prank did not Appeal to them. More Fables
Claire's impulse to send for them had been purely instinctive—an atrophied survival of clan-spirit that persisted beyond any real faith in its significance. The Blood Red Dawn
Finally, in the course of many generations, it became almost atrophied from disuse, and ceased reporting to the brain, or other nerve centres. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
All other means and methods of attack and defence have atrophied. Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Art supplied the spiritual oxygen, without which the life of the Renaissance must have been atrophied. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
We thus get a hoof which is visibly narrowed from side to side, with a frog that is atrophied and often thrushy, and with a sole that is abnormally concave, hard, and affected with corns. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
On account of unduly emphasizing the relation of man to God the Puritans "atrophied their social humanitarian instinct" and developed into a race of self-conscious saints. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
But the gentler fibers of the man were atrophied by the habits of a lifetime. Within the Law
His conscience seemed to be atrophied, but that may be due to the fact that he was contending with men who never had any to be atrophied. Edison, His Life and Inventions
His power to reason has relieved them of many of their duties, and so they have, to some extent, atrophied, as have the muscles which move the ears and scalp, merely from disuse. Tarzan of the Apes
This nerve trunk was atrophied below the thickening, and had undergone gelatinous degeneration. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
Langenbeck reports the case of a young man who had the inferior maxilla so atrophied that in infancy it was impossible for him to take milk from the breast. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Perhaps the spirit of gambling is really only an atrophied, perverted form of the spirit of adventure. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Her complete withdrawal from the struggle for existence had at last, in her negative, non-resistive mind atrophied all the instincts of that struggle including finally the instinct for reproduction. Stories from Everybody's Magazine
As a consequence of this, the frog itself becomes atrophied by reason of the continual pressure exerted upon it by the ingrowing horn of the wall and the bars. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
All the joints except the fingers and toes had become ankylosed, and from nonusage the muscles had atrophied. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
His muscles, almost atrophied from disuse in his former life, had filled out. Pellucidar
There is a part of our nature—the active and aggressive part—that sleeps all our lives long or becomes atrophied if we lead lives of ease and secure dependence. The Price She Paid
In so far as Hugo's meagre intellect, atrophied by education and by luxury, permitted him to be a lawyer at all, he was of that now common type called the corporation lawyer. The Conflict
Commonly accompanying quarter-crack is the condition of contracted heels and atrophied frog. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
In the first case the coats of the stomach were atrophied and thin. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Some nameless paralysis had settled upon his capacity for amusement and enjoyment, and atrophied it. The Market-Place
I suppose their powers of enlightened enjoyment get atrophied from disuse.” Beasts and Super-Beasts
She had given him, instead, the delicate pleasure of watching her expand like a sea-creature restored to its element, stretching out the atrophied tentacles of girlish vanity and enjoyment to the rising tide of opportunity. The Touchstone
It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
After removal of the ball the eye partially atrophied. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The atrophied corner of Yorkshire that embraces the lowest reaches of the Humber is terminated by a mere raised causeway leading to the wider patch of ground dominated by Spurn Head lighthouse. Yorkshire
Ah," he laughed, "the solemn-faced Intellectuals with their narrow outlook, their atrophied vision, and their long words! The Centaur
The disuse of a faculty leads to its loss; and so, with the cessation of the desire for song, the gift of singing became atrophied. The Book of Delight and Other Papers
In the towns he is warmed and fed and clothed so spontaneously and easily that after a time he perforce begins to doubt himself, to wonder whether his powers are not atrophied from disuse. The Forest
The eye was atrophied, and on examination a piece of stone was seen projecting from it directly between the lids. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Divorced from reality, with its activities all fettered in baby-linen, our literature has atrophied and dwindled into a babble of nursery rhymes, tragedies of Little Marys, tales of Babes in a Wood. The Man Shakespeare
These authors also mention three ducks in male plumage in which the ovary was similarly atrophied but not pigmented. Hormones and Heredity
In well advanced and neglected cases the arch of the sole is increased, the frog is narrow and atrophied and the bars high and perpendicular. Common Diseases of Farm Animals
Thank God, I've at last come across a man with a brain that isn't atrophied for want of use. The Mountebank
In the act of stretching out the hand, ability to stretch it forth is bestowed, power returns to atrophied muscles, stiffened joints are suppled, the blood runs in full measure through the veins. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
All spiritual possessions and powers grow by use, even as exercised muscles are strengthened, and unused ones tend to be atrophied. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
The gonads are not actually penetrated, at least in some cases, by the fibrous processes of the parasite, but nevertheless they are atrophied and almost disappear. Hormones and Heredity
The great Goethe struggled in vain: parts of his soul were atrophied, he lacked certain of the vital organs, which were killed by his wealth. Jean-Christophe Journey's End
I wonder in how many of our cases there has been an arrested development, like that which you will sometimes see in deformed people, the lower limbs all but atrophied? Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
How comes it that this man, respectably equipped by birth, has grown so warped and atrophied, an animated bundle of deficiencies? Alone
But it is a mental power or attitude easily recognizable in those who possess it, and perhaps atrophied by the very atmosphere of the study. First and Last
I mean, Diana, that every one of the gifts that nature has lavished upon us—speech, sight, thought, motion—would all become atrophied and fail us utterly without use. Peregrine's Progress
All their qualities have atrophied to the profit of their faculties of observation. Jean-Christophe Journey's End
On account of unduly emphasizing the relation of man to God, the Puritans "atrophied their social humanitarian instinct" and developed into a race of self-conscious saints. A Century of Negro Migration
We all know the civilised, the industrial eye—how atrophied, how small and formless and expressionless it has become. Alone
There are things in Nature still which prompt the naturalist who has not atrophied his inner eye and starved his imagination to cry out: Science ... Concerning Animals and Other Matters
For a man wilfully to break an engagement means sometimes that the whole love-life in a woman is atrophied, all that made her woman stabbed to the quick of life. The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.]
Old age had come, however, and had gradually atrophied her muscles. Doctor Pascal
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