(n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
(v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
(v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(2) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(3) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
(4) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(5) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(6) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
(7) The clinical and postmortem findings of a patient with Lewy body pathology combined with multiple-system atrophy are described.
(8) In a final experiment, prostatic atrophy in castrate rats was not enhanced by either adrenalectomy or flutamide treatment.
(9) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(10) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(11) Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary chorioretinal degenerative disease caused by a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, ornithine aminotransferase (OAT).
(12) Computer-aided axial tomography revealed progressive development of atrophy of the left hemisphere and compensatory dilatation of the ventricles.
(13) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
(14) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
(15) Accessory gland atrophy was restodred following the treatment with insulin and much improved with insulin plus hCG.
(16) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
(17) Six biopsies could not be evaluated (advanced atrophy?).
(18) The degree of necrosis of ciliary epithelium and atrophy of ciliary processes are directly dependent on the dose of action.
(19) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
(20) Fiber atrophy of types I and II was equal in the soleus, and that of type II was greater than the type I atrophy in both regions of the plantaris.
Phthisis
Definition:
(n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anatomic success (absence of phthisis bulbi, enucleation, or conjunctival flap) was achieved in 20 eyes (87%).
(2) The second cyst was excised by cryoextraction 6 weeks after the initial surgery, but the eye developed an inoperable retinal detachment and phthisis bulbi.
(3) However, when the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve is affected, the ocular disease (ophthalmic zoster), although also usually mild and self-limited, may have severe complications (corneal scarring, glaucoma, iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, scleritis, motor disturbances, optic neuritis, retinitis, anterior segment necrosis, and phthisis bulbi and servere postherpetic neuralgia).
(4) While there is an apparent high complication rate, visual loss and phthisis cannot be ascribed directly to the procedure, since these are eyes with a poor prognosis.
(5) Two of the four individuals with intraocular extension presented with phthisis bulbi.
(6) On final examination, intraocular pressure in 16 (32%) of the eyes was greater than 26 mm Hg and in 17 (34%), less than or equal to 25 mm Hg; 17 (34%) developed phthisis bulbi.
(7) Two years later, with a visual acuity of hand motions and signs of phthisis bulbi, he had a vitrectomy that cleared the media to reveal a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
(8) The postoperative complications were glaucoma (23 eyes, 15%), phthisis (14 eyes, 8%), secondary pupillary membranes (11 eyes, 6%), and retinal detachment (six eyes, 3%).
(9) Fifteen years after a partial maxillectomy and radiation therapy for left antral carcinoma, a 53-year-old woman presented to the Eye Plastics and Orbit Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, with phthisis and a large, black corneal lesion in the left eye.
(10) The major postoperative complication was phthisis bulbi, found in ten eyes (21%).
(11) None of the eyes has thus far been lost as a result of neovascular glaucoma or painful phthisis.
(12) An ocular prosthesis fitted over phthisis bulbi or a discolored blind eye of near normal size is a positive approach to improve the cosmetic appearance and psychological well-being of the patient.
(13) Of the total number of 17 eyes, 16 present retinoma, 1 phthisis bulbi.
(14) Retinoma and phthisis bulbi of retinoblastoma are rare entities found in retinoblastoma patients and their relatives.
(15) Enucleation or phthisis was observed in seven (54%) of the eyes in the nonvitrectomy group compared with only five (18%) in the vitrectomy group.
(16) Our results suggest that intraocular pressure and outflow are functions of both the intensity of irradiation and the surface area treated, and that each individual pressure head may require an optimal pars plana area of treatment of therapeutic degree to lower pressure and yet prevent overfiltration and phthisis.
(17) In the wake of the bacterial revolution after Robert Koch identified the tuberculosis bacillus, medical and public health professionals classified the various forms of consumption and phthisis as a single disease--tuberculosis.
(18) Complications included hyphema (18%), "kissing" choroidal effusion (6%), blocked tube (8%), flat anterior chamber (12%), cataracts (5%), Tenon's cyst (encapsulated bleb) (17%), uveitis (7%), phthisis bulbi (5%), and erosion of the silicone tube (1%).
(19) Several quis-treated eyes developed phthisis bulbi however, and thus could not be included among those assessed for eye weight and dimensional measurements.
(20) Severe complications included phthisis bulbi in 11% of cyclocryotherapy and severe visual loss in 20% with cyclodialysis and 14% with cyclocryotherapy.