9 adjectives to describe atrophy

Artistic atrophy is benumbing us, we are losing our finer feeling for beauty, the rose is going back to the briar.

The scholar who studies the aesthetical anatomy of Greek Art has a melancholy pleasure, like a surgeon, in watching its slow, but inevitable atrophy under the incubus of Rome.

Without them I can imagine nothing but the most terrible intellectual atrophy among our medical men.

Learned oculists theorized vaporously about optic atrophies, fractures, and brain pressures of one sort and another; and meanwhile Robert Austin, in the highest perfection of bodily vigor, in the fullest possession of those faculties that had raised him from an unschooled farm-boy to a position of eminence in the business world, went slowly blind.

For just as the thymus involutes at the second year, the pineal atrophies before the onset of adolescence.

It had been brought on by the action of iodine, which, administered in certain quantities, produced symptoms as of rapid atrophy, such as had appeared in Mrs. Armitage.

It was a sign of religious atrophy to sustain an unjust Government that supported an injustice by resorting to untruth and camouflage.

The cynical epicurean careerists and careeristinas, and the depraved degenerates of a comfort-lusting civilization may have suffered an absolute atrophy and castration of that instinct.

Castration causes a persistent growth and retarded atrophy of the thymus.

9 adjectives to describe  atrophy