[
UK
/ˈætɹəfɪd/
]
[ US /ˈætɹəfid/ ]
[ US /ˈætɹəfid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use
partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm
How To Use atrophied In A Sentence
- Businesses without political protection will see atrophied sales.
- An autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman whose death sparked an intense debate over a person's right-to-die, showed that her brain was severely "atrophied" and weighed less than half of what it should have, and that no treatment could have reversed the damage... "Terri" was blind and wasn't abused.
- Whatever hitting skills these transient players once had are now atrophied from disuse.
- The CCC thus saw the atrophied bodies of those joining the program much as it viewed cutover forests and eroded soils: as a degraded natural resource in dire need of conservation.
- A decade after the accident, he started to experience muscle degeneration in his left leg, until his calf muscle atrophied to the point that his lower leg looked like a straight line. Manifesting Michelangelo
- The treatment has left him unable to raise his atrophied left arm above his chest.
- The extra demand for cortisol cannot be met by the atrophied adrenal glands.
- Her brain was severely atrophied, weighing less than half of what it should have.
- All of her leg muscles are severely atrophied.
- It is a wake-up call to the now-grown-up Christopher's atrophied imagination.