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Biopsy itself, when used with a strict cutoff requiring villous atrophy, appears to have high specificity but poor sensitivity.
Bilateral thigh pain or weakness with atrophy of the iliopsoas, quadriceps, and adductor muscles also may be present.
Tiger bone is used to treat arthritis and muscular atrophy, and rhino horn to treat fevers, convulsions, and delirium.
Players become shallow and lazy as important parts of their game wither and atrophy from disuse.
For creativity is a muscle that must be worked or it will gradually atrophy and wither.
The presence of spinal cord lesions or atrophy also suggests a poor prognosis.
Several degenerative conditions, including the progressive retinal atrophy which caused his blindness, are passed along through breeding lines.
In space, the blood itself becomes weightless, and the heart will eventually atrophy because it has to work less to pump blood through the body.
In addition, your muscles might atrophy and you could have trouble walking.
The retinal pigment membrane cells slowly degenerate and atrophy, and central vision is lost.
The main goal is for him to regain strength in his shoulder, back and upper arm because the muscles could atrophy from non-use.
The cells gradually degenerate over a period of time and cause paralysis as muscles atrophy throughout the body.
Not surprisingly, the social skills of children atrophy when they watch television instead of playing.
Command and control involves perishable skills that atrophy in the absence of training.
The obvious concern with a decline in reading is that such a trend causes critical thinking skills and one's imagination to atrophy.
As the long-term unemployed lose touch with the labour market, their self-esteem falls and their job skills atrophy.
Repair within three weeks of injury is recommended to avoid tendon retraction, reinjury, tendon degeneration and muscle atrophy.
It usually presents with pain and muscle weakness with atrophy in the shoulder girdle.
Coeliac disease is characterised histologically by total or subtotal villous atrophy.
During the immobilization of a fracture, all nonimmobilized parts must be moved to avoid stiffness, muscle atrophy and joint contractures.
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As the tadpole attains its full development, the suctorial organs behind the mouth gradually atrophy.
The muscles in protracted cases suffer simple atrophy, but are sometimes the seat of an interstitial accumulation of fat.
Later the affected muscles become exquisitely tender, and then atrophy, while the knee-jerk or other reflex is lost.
A mere lack of use of bones may also lead to a certain amount of atrophy from lacunar resorption.
The stomach may participate with other organs in the general atrophy attending inanition and marasmus.
Eventually however the formation of the mesonephros commences, and is followed by the atrophy of the pronephros.
Examination showed slight atrophy of both optic nerves, Argyll-Robertson pupil, and myosis.
Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?
Secondarily, from pressure, atrophy and destruction of the skin-glands, and atrophic degeneration of the fat and muscles result.
But he has come into the world with an atrophy, a constriction, caused by amniotic threads.
In at least this age and country it exists as the atrophy of a cureless decline.
But the atrophy of responsibility proved the canker at the heart of the Empire.
In senile arteriosclerosis there is the physiologic atrophy of the media to be reckoned with.
They pay the penalty in an atrophy of the faculties of reflection and representation.
Its anterior section, in front of the wolffian body, undergoes a more or less complete atrophy.
On the atrophy of the provisional vessels the whole of the blood of the arteria centralis passes into the retina.
In many cases which have been described as primary atrophy the histological investigation of the stomach has been very defective.
Atrophy and cystic degeneration of the nerve trunk follows destruction of retinal neurons and cupping of the disc.
The ovary of aconites, according to Moquin, is very subject to atrophy.
The calves had severe arthrogryposis, ankylosis of several joints, abnormal curvature of the vertebral column, and severe muscle atrophy.
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