Such an atrophy might indeed become general, and God would in that case disappear from human experience as music would disappear if universal deafness attacked the race.
Having allowed the organ for the ideal to atrophy in his soul, he could dream of finding some sullen sort of happiness in unreason.
The pursuit of it would be not the acme but the atrophy of moral endeavour.
Yet a case of cardiac atrophy is reported in a woman of eighty whose heart weighed but 170 grams.
As a rule, these marks are permanent and seldom lose their distinctness, though in exceptional cases they may undergo atrophy in the first years of life.
Atrophy and diminished weight of the testicles and rarity or absence of the spermatozoids are indications of senility; although spermatozoids have been observed at ninety-four years.
Diarrhoea andatrophy carry off the greatest number.
In the house they seem to relish the first universal paste and poppy seeds, on which food they will live five or six years; but afterwards they droop and die ofatrophy or scurf, as I have remarked several times.
The loss of a healthy, vigorous, natural sexual instinct is fatal; and just as much so if the loss is by disuse and atrophy as if it is by abuse and perversion.
There will always be a struggle between atrophy of an organ rendered useless, and hereditariness{171}.
In large clots atrophy of the brain substances may follow, or softening and abscess from want of nutrition may result, and render the animal worthless, ultimately resulting in death.
Changes in the muscular tissue of the heart walls, serous infiltration from pericarditis, myocarditis, fatty degeneration and infiltration, and atrophy of the muscular fibers may all lead to dilatation.
The paralysis induced is progressive, but not usually marked with atrophy of the muscles or increased sensibility along the spine.
In cases of considerable dilatation of the heart there may be atrophy and shrinking of the valves.
I do not mean to suggest that there was an intellectual atrophy in the country prior to those influences making themselves felt, but there was an isolation which is never good for intellectual development.
The palms of the hands have the transverse creases, but not the diagonal—the result of the atrophy of the thumbs.
In addition to this, the cells all over the body atrophy (contract or reduce in size).
A grave form of jaundice characterized by neurosis of the hepatic cells and atrophy of the liver.
Cardiac atrophy is a decrease in the size, strength, weight, and activity of the heart.
A state of decline in an aged person characterized by progressive atrophy of all the tissues and organs.
A chronic inflammation of the lungs, in which the normal air cells are replaced by fibrous or connective tissue, followed by induration and atrophy of the lung.
In senile atrophy the muscular fibres contain many nuclei, and these, increasing rapidly, bring about an almost complete disappearance of the contractile substance (Fig.
The latter, the so-called neuronophags, only contribute to the atrophy inasmuch as they press against the nerve-cells and deprive them of nutrition.
The phenomena of atrophy in general and of senile decay afford other cases of tissue destruction in which the phagocytic character of the process is more modified and obscure than in nerve-cells and ova.
Just as in the atrophy of the brain there is an increase in the volume of neuroglœa, the substance in which the neuronophags are found, so also in the atrophy of the muscles there is an increase of muscular nuclei.
The process can be observed in the different varieties of caries of the bone, and in the bony atrophy of old age as is represented in Fig.
The bleaching of hair and theatrophy of the brain in old age thus furnish important arguments against the view that senescence is the result of arrest of the reproductive powers of cells.
According to him, the power of reproduction of the cells weakens progressively during life, until a point is necessarily reached at which the organism, no longer capable of repairing itself, begins to atrophy and degenerate.
Weinberg and I examined several cases of muscular atrophy in old human beings and lower animals.
Such losses of height and weight are signs of the general atrophy of the aged organism.
We may add muscular atrophy to the blanching of hair and the decay of nerve-cells as another instance showing that senile degeneration is not the result of cells ceasing to be able to multiply.
No continent man need be deterred by this apocryphal fear ofatrophy of the testes, from living a chaste life.
Closely connected with other local results is the deficient development of the breasts when the vice is begun before or at puberty, and atrophy if it is begun or continued after development has occurred.
In the first place, I may state that I have, after many years' experience, never seen a single instance of atrophy of the generative organs from this cause.
Atrophy of the left testicle is often produced by the pressure of the distended veins; but this does not produce impotence.
If nature intended such a retribution to be meted out she would have led the way by causing an atrophy or some other form of disease in the subject who had abused his sexual organs.
Of far more importance is the danger of the varicocele gradually encroaching by pressure upon the testis, perhaps to cause a partial atrophy of that gland.
Atrophy of the pocket-book perhaps--but never atrophy of the liver!
Fatty degeneration of the muscle is frequent, brown atrophy exceptional.
For example, among infants it has never seemed that those suffering from marasmus or atrophy were particularly prone to develop scurvy.
Sato and Nambu also found hyperaemia and atrophywith increase of connective tissue between the muscle fibres.
Account to be made of the law of atrophythrough disuse.
We are not ignorant of the law, which holds throughout the material, the mental, and the moral realms, that disuse tends to atrophy and extinction.
VII Account to be made of the law of atrophy through disuse.
It is shortsighted not to foresee the inevitable effect on our theological material of the law of atrophy through disuse.
To what extent the law of atrophy has begun to work upon the doctrine of the virgin birth appears in the recent utterance of so eminent an evangelical scholar as Dr.
Physostigma: in a few cases of progressive paralysis of the insane, in old-standing hemiplegia, in paraplegia due to myelitis, and in progressive muscular atrophy it has done good service.
Iodine: painted on to remove tartar on teeth; and in exposure of fang due to atrophy of gum.
Of sixty-nine bilateral and eighteen unilateral cases of parotitis, metastasis to both testicles occurred in four cases, all of which resulted in atrophy of the affected testicle.
Fatty degeneration and atrophy of the parenchymatous cells of organs like the liver and kidneys is the constant result of long-continued and extensive infiltration of these glands.
Atrophy of the mammæ in single women of retired lives is common; atrophy of the testicles in unmarried men much less so.
Yellow atrophy of the liver is one of the disorders most rarely ending otherwise than in death.
In the extreme atrophyof dry beriberi I have not unfrequently found many of the sarcolemma sheaths completely emptied of their contents.
It left him with optic neuritis on the right side, which induced partial atrophy of the nerve and great limitation of the field of vision.
Dejerine, in five autopsies, records an atrophy of the anterior roots secondary to a myelitic degeneration of the ganglia of the anterior horns.
Not otherwise is it, we hold, with religious doctrines; they have their own law of growth and development, and he who would arrest the process condemns them to atrophy and decay.
Atrophy of the nerve of action," he muttered; "there's no cure for that!
In some quarters no little importance is attached from the pathogenic point of view to the actual state of the muscles, and in particular to atrophy or hypertrophy of the sternomastoids.
Muscular hypertrophy or atrophy may be the sequel to tics born of ideas that find motor expression, and circulatory and even cellular changes may ensue on gesticulatory excess.
Incessant repetition of a tic may lead alike to hypertrophy of certain muscles and atrophy of their antagonists, conditions which in aggravated instances may produce permanent malformation.
Whether it has the power to prevent or even retard the actual process of atrophy remains to be seen.
Not infrequently, the optic nerve is also affected, developing what is known as gray atrophy of the nerves.
Certainly the governing classes of the Continent must be suffering from atrophy of the humorous instinct if they fail to note the practical nullity of the efforts which they and their subjects have long put forth.
Bismarck himself put it in this way: that the introduction of Free Trade in 1865 soon produced a state of atrophy in Germany; this was checked for a time by the French war indemnity; but Germany needed a permanent cure, namely, Protection.
Some atrophy through majesty occurs even in the relatively new Chinese National Government, arrested but not eradicated by war-time vigor.
Its growth involves executive giantism, and atrophy for the remaining Yüan.
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