No statesman or publicist could set forth more clearly than Mrs. Blatch the need of winning this war, in order to prevent either endless and ruinous wars in the future, or else a world despotism which would mean the atrophy of everything that really tends to the elevation of mankind.

This power is strongly developed in savages and barbarians, but has become atrophied in most civilized men, by continued disuse.

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

Their atrophy at the menopause coincides with the shrinkage of the ovaries that takes place at that period.

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

We believe this to be an illusion, as a ridge of any size at the toe readily gives one the impression of atrophy behind it, without this latter condition being actually present.

This nerve trunk was atrophied below the thickening, and had undergone gelatinous degeneration.

At birth, there are some 30,000 to 200,000 of these, of which a good many atrophy during childhood

The carnal side, atrophied for months, which had been stirred by the enervation of his pious readings, then brought to a crisis by the English cant, came to the surface.

They are kept in leading-strings from the cradle to the grave; their intellect is rarely cultivated, their affections suffer atrophy from constant repression.

Finally, in the course of many generations, it became almost atrophied from disuse, and ceased reporting to the brain, or other nerve centres.

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.