Finally, in the course of many generations, it became almost atrophied from disuse, and ceased reporting to the brain, or other nerve centres.
This power is strongly developed in savages and barbarians, but has become atrophied in most civilized men, by continued disuse.
In certain derivative forms constituting the family Pallenidae, however, the appendages of the 2nd pair are either rudimentary or atrophied altogether.
The latter is wholly atrophied in the developed Ascidia, and looks like a small nerve-ganglion in front above the gill-crate.
The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix.
It afterwards atrophies; but the relic of the atrophied caudal vertebrae and of the rudimentary muscles that once moved it remains permanently.
Thus we find the first finger or the thumb atrophied in the fore-foot (or hand) of the dog (II).
The atrophiedrelic of the former is known as the paradidymis, that of the latter as the parovarium.
Frequently we find less than five toes, and sometimes the feet are wholly atrophied (as in the serpents).
In the plant-eating mammals this is very large, but it is very small or completelyatrophied in the flesh-eaters.
But the branchial gut, the one reminiscence of our fish-ancestors, is afterwards atrophied as such.
Rivers' work, which, as an account of what seems to be a religion atrophied by over-development of ritual, is in many ways of great interest to the student of Roman religious experience.
Our sense is partially atrophied from disuse, but it is still alive, at least in old people, who alone, as a class, have the time to be young.
The atrophied mammae, 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 team of termites wheeled, and walked over to the nearest spear, trailing the feeble, atrophied legs of their rider as they went.
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.
In the case of the larva of Sergestes in the passage from the Acanthosoma (Mysis) stage to the Mastigopus stage the two hindermost thoracic appendages become atrophied and redevelop again later.
The intestinal canal is atrophied and without an anal aperture.
The mouths of the gastric tubules become blocked up, while deeper parts are dilated into cysts; and at times they are atrophied or filled with granular fatty matter.
Under its influence the kidney is atrophied and reduced to the condition of a capsule of connective tissue, often containing bony spicules.
In some forms in the mature condition the intestine is atrophied and the anus absent.
The gastric glands become atrophied and the arteries become atheromatous, so that with symptoms of indigestion there are often associated loss of consciousness at times, vertigo, irregular action of the heart, etc.
In the nymphs, the thoracic glands are not developed but in the abdomen there are to be found three unpaired dorsal stink glands, which persist until the fifth molt, when they become atrophied and replaced by the thoracic glands.
The mesothorax is triangular, with the apex posteriorly, and bears the greatlyatrophied first pair of wings.
He glided across and poured from his own store of sympathy into that dry, atrophied soul upon the bed.
He realised, however, clearly that this side of him was not atrophied as he thought.
Murphy has practised resection of cicatricial or atrophied portions of the cauda, with end-to-end suture.
No one claims that it will build up atrophied muscles nor, played in the ordinary way, that it will induce deep breathing; nor, except in warm weather, that it will produce any large amount of skin action.
In Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibia the lower part of the embryonic infundibulum becomes atrophied and reduced to a mere finger-like process--the processus infundibuli.
In cases where the primitive body cavity is atrophied or partially broken up into separate compartments (Insecta, Mollusca, Discophora, etc.
This atrophied creature has retained so few marks of an independent animal that it was looked upon for a long time as a diseased excrescence of its host’s intestines.
However, it is not at all probable that so atrophied a being will ever have had the inclination to become an artist, and could acquire, even in a moderate degree, the technical skill necessary for such a profession.
Top columnal a persistent proximale, often fusing with IBB, which are frequently atrophied in the adult.
Below BB or IBB there follows a stem, which, however, may beatrophied or totally lost (see fig.
They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
It then becomes atrophied and disappears, and finally respiration in the adult is conducted by lungs alone.
They are in an atrophied state, and this is often in part attributable to disuse of the limbs.
The sensualist at least is not worldly, and though his nature be atrophied in all its higher part, there is not lacking, as we have seen, a certain internal and abstract spirituality in his experience.
The recorder of verbal tradition religiously sets down its inconsistencies and leaves in the transfigured chronicle many tell-tale incidents and remarks which, like atrophied organs in an animal body, reveal its gradual formation.
The earth once full, no more children would have been begotten and parental instincts would have been atrophied for want of function.
It immerses man in instrumentalities, weighs him down with atrophied organs, and by subjecting him eternally to fruitless sacrifices renders him stupid and superstitious and ready to be himself tyrannical when the opportunity occurs.
The Filaria at last is so entirely atrophied that Professor Jacobson, after having seen it alive on one of his patients at Copenhagen, wrote to Blainville: "This Medina worm is not really a worm, it is a sheath full of eggs.
The Filaria is not allied to the Mermis, as was formerly thought; its organization is different, and its organs become atrophied in a very different manner.
We have not exhausted the strange peculiarities of this particular group; there are some which live without shells and claws in the inside of other cirrhipedes, and atrophied males which only exist at the expense of their own females.
The female is a kind of puffed-out worm, and the male resembles an atrophied acarus.
If you have to fly about to find every meal you eat, your muscles do not become atrophied (atrophied means wasted away through want of use).
In the past, it was accepted, that with puberty the thymus atrophied and was replaced by some sort of fatty tissue.
Whether the muscles are massive or sparse, atrophied or hypertrophied, soft or hard, easily fatigable or not, bespeak conditions in the glandular chain.
He portrayed a group of soldiers with peculiarly high-pitched voices, smooth and hairless skins, and atrophied generative organs.
This is almost as voluminous as a true penis in quadrumanes; it is atrophied in other species.
But those who had slow or atrophied minds and did not see the process often failed to recognise what he was after, or what a clever kill he had made.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atrophied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: brittle; emaciated; papery; sere; shriveled; shrunken; wasted; wilted; withered; wizened; wrinkled
