These results support the notion that competitive mechanisms rather than sensory disuse are responsible for gross morphological remodeling of geniculocortical arbors.
Every use of a structure has a positive impact on its degree of entrenchment, whereas extended periods of disuse have a negative impact.
The key to the cabinet was rusty from many years of disuse.
In the other villages, for various reasons, there are tanks, but they have fallen into disuse.
When the monarchy was no longer in existence and this central authority had vanished, the law ceased to be relevant and so fell into disuse.
The key to the cabinets was rusty from many years of disuse.
Sometimes, we know they had fallen into disuse.
Words fall into disuse for many reasons, but they rarely disappear altogether, even if their survival is only on paper.