Examples of atrophy

• These changes are attributed to decreased urethral vascularization, to a decrease in alpha-adrenergic receptors and to smooth muscle tissue atrophy.

• Their minds and wills atrophied, and they became solely creatures of sensual instinct.

• For example, she hypothesized that the ability to manipulate phonemes may atrophy unless maintained by appropriate reading experience.

• Large white spots caused a strong focal fibrosis and atrophy of lobules, that disappeared completely in the centre.

• It is probably not a result of atrophy of the sucker; the suckers of immatures and adults show no signs of degradation.

• Subcortical disorders such as progressive supranuclear palsy display an anterior cerebral defect which is less severe than in lobar atrophy.

• Socalled late onset cerebellar atrophy typically begins in the 30s or 40s although occasionally the symptoms are delayed into the sixth or seventh decade.

• It commonly occurs after childbirth or postmenopausally, when atrophy occurs related to oestrogen deficiency.