What is "atrophic"

Usage examples of "atrophic".

The entire arm above the injury was badly swollen, but the hand was still normal size, although it looked shrunken and atrophic in comparison.

It is an atrophic process, and will end with a catatonic lack of response, incontinence and the need for constant nursing care.

If anything, it appeared dormant and atrophic, with a thin proliferative layer, few glands, and decreased vascularity.

Figure 177 shows another case of extraordinary atrophic condition of all the tissues of the body associated with nondevelopment.

Spitzka and others demonstrate that in such cases other parts of the brain enlarge to compensate for the atrophic portion which is connected with the functionless nerves.

Interspersed among the pigment-spots, but not so numerous, were white atrophic spots, which in some parts coalesced, forming white, shining, cicatrix-like areas.

Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.

This is probably also the place to mention Hal's older brother Mario's khaki-colored skin, an odd dead gray-green that in its corticate texture and together with his atrophic in-curled arms and arachnodactylism gave him, particularly from a middle-distance, an almost uncannily reptilian/ dinosaurian look.