In Muhr's case (cited by Spitzka) the atrophic cerebellar hemisphere was on the same side with the atrophic cerebral hemisphere.
The hand and foot of the seemingly atrophic side had six fingers and toes.
Atrophic tracheitis, with symptoms quite similar to atrophic rhinitis is a not unusual accompaniment of the nasal condition.
He produced a carefully filed paper stating “atrophic ozenous rhinitis, deafness from labyrinthine shock following shell explosion, hearing diminished 60 per cent right, 30 per cent left.
Yet an atonic atrophic palsy with loss of tendon reflexes (supinator) is inappropriate.
The forearm and hand were not atrophic but slightly weak.
The otological service found an atrophic ozenous rhinitis, a normal larynx, perfect audition.
Eiweissmilch"~ is used in atrophic cases where there are bad green stools.
There is a rare variety of cancer of the corporeal endometrium, namely, that which attacks small atrophic uteri.
Such an accident usually occurs at the site of some previous scar or atrophic patch in the membrane.
Circumscribed atrophic patches appear as dark transparent areas, which show considerable mobility and bulge prominently on inflation.
A cicatrix in the membrane is evidence of a healed perforation, and is also transparent, but differs from an atrophic patch in being more sharply defined from the surrounding membrane.
Atrophic conditions are also met with, the bones undergoing fatty atrophy, so that in extreme cases they may be cut with a knife or be easily fractured.
These atrophic conditions are most marked in bedridden patients, and are largely due to disuse of the limb; they are recovered from if it is able to resume its functions.
Figure 177 shows another case of extraordinary atrophic condition of all the tissues of the body associated with nondevelopment.
Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.
Spitzka and others demonstrate that in such cases other parts of the brain enlarge to compensate for the atrophicportion which is connected with the functionless nerves.
Hutchinson mentions a boy of three and a half in whom there was congenital absence of hair and an atrophic condition of the skin and appendages.
The Cause of Infantile Atrophy, Deduced from a Study of Secretin in Normal andAtrophic Infants, The Journal A.
The Cause of Infantile Atrophy, Deduced from A Study of Secretin in Normal and Atrophic Infants, The Journal A.
The atrophic change in the hepatic cells is represented finally by some brownish or black pigment, but it is rare, indeed, for all the cells of an acinus to disappear.
The atrophic shrinking of the liver occurs more decidedly after the ninth day.
The thickening thus induced, with the contraction of the new tissue and the atrophic changes resulting from pressure and disuse, are the causes of the deformities, subluxations, and impaired movements of gouty joints.
By the timely administration of one or more of these would it not be possible to stay the progress of the atrophic degeneration?
When the atrophic changes occur in the liver, more or less swelling of the splenic veins must occur in consequence of portal obstruction.
The behavior of any case of hyperaemia of the liver is determined, first, by the character of the cause, and, secondly, by the extension of the mischief and the atrophic changes which ensue.
In chronic maladies of a depressing kind there may be simply a weak action of the heart, or the muscular tissue of the organ may be affected by a fatty and atrophic degeneration.
It seems most probable, however, that the ramifications of the hepatic artery and all the capillaries of the lobule are affected, and that the deposits in them lead to atrophic degeneration of the cells.
In this atrophic degeneration of the hepatic cells, in their fatty degeneration, and ultimately entire disappearance, consist the real proofs of the disease.
The liver may be undergoing the atrophic degeneration to a marked extent and yet remain large--larger even than normal.
The walls of a dilated stomach may be hypertrophied, and such cases are called hypertrophic dilatation; or the walls may be of normal thickness or may be thinned, and these cases are called atrophic or atonic dilatation.
Although favus of the scalp persists into adult life, it becomes less active and, finally, as a rule, gradually disappears, leaving behind scarred or atrophic bald areas.
In favus, although the same condition of the hair is noted, the yellow, cup-shaped crusts, and the presence of the atrophic areas in that disease are pathognomonic.
Secondarily, from pressure, atrophy and destruction of the skin-glands, and atrophic degeneration of the fat and muscles result.
The patches eventually become markedly anæsthetic, and the overlying skin, and the skin on other parts as well, becomes atrophic and of a brownish or yellowish color.
Minute pin-point atrophic depressions or stains are left, which gradually become less distinct.
The subcutaneous tissues, muscle, hair and nails undergo atrophic or degenerative changes, and these changes are especially noted about the hands and feet.
From eczema by the condition of the affected hair, the atrophicand scar-like areas, the odor, and the history.
Glossy skin, general idiopathic atrophy of the skin, parchment skin, atrophic lines and spots, senile atrophy, and the atrophy following certain cutaneous diseases.
What several diseases of the skin are commonly followed by atrophic changes?
Sooner or later, usually after months or years, the disease ends in resolution and recovery, or in marked atrophic changes, causing contraction and deformity.
As the disease spreads the oldest part becomes dry and heals, the new epidermal covering being thin and atrophic in appearance.
It was formerly considered a new growth, but recent opinion tends toward regarding it as a chronic inflammation of the cutis, superinducing degenerative and atrophic changes.
All forms are capable of involution after an existence of months, and may leave dark-colored atrophic patches to mark their seat.
Footnote 6: The former condition was undoubtedly observed in autopsies made of the dry or atrophic form of the disease, though this fact is not mentioned.
Any abnormal state of the mucous membrane, with {681} the exception of an atrophic condition and cicatricial changes, affords an excellent abode for diphtheria.
Beriberi atrophia (dry or atrophic beriberi), in which there is a notable deficiency of fluids in the vessels and areolar tissue, and atrophy of the muscles.
As can be readily understood, these curious atrophic muscular conditions from disuse occur more frequently in the legs than in the arms.
All of the muscles on the affected side became painful, apparently because of the atrophic condition to which they were reduced.
In the arms the atrophic conditions are not so noticeable because the arms may be used without having to do the hard work required of the trunk and leg muscles in holding the man erect.
Now, if the flexor tendons are cut and the toe straightened the atrophic extensor muscles will not hold it in that position, and when the flexors grow together the old condition will reassert itself.
Clarke, that he fully recognizes the force of the analogy, and the great strength of the presumption which it sets up in favor of an atrophic change of the posterior roots in neuralgia.
However, the atrophic condition of the organs of elimination makes this impossible and there are not enough alkaline mineral elements to neutralize the destructive acids.
The functional activities are either hyperactive as in acute inflammation, or sluggish and inactive as in chronic atonic and atrophic conditions.
Atrophic cirrhosis is caused by alcoholism, often augmented by milder stimulants such as tea and coffee.
On examination, I found her afflicted with atrophic catarrh, chronic constipation and anal ulceration, from which she had suffered for seven years, with but little intermission from pain during each day of that entire period.
Proctitis may be considered as acute, subacute or chronic according to the duration of the process; or as atrophic or hypertrophic from the structural changes induced.
Whenever muscles have to be increased in size or won back from an atrophic condition, the individual to whom they belong must go through a period of soreness and tenderness in those muscles which often is very hard to bear.
The muscles grow more flaccid and eventually atrophic as a consequence, until sometimes there will be a difference of more than an inch in the girth of two limbs at the same point, and this atrophy may proceed much farther.
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