After months of immobility, the patient's muscles showed severe atrophy, significantly reducing his ability to walk.

If you don't use those muscles, they will atrophy over time.

The once-vibrant garden was atrophying under neglect, its pathways choked with weeds.

After months of immobilization, his limb looked atrophied and pale, a constant reminder to keep moving.

After months of immobilization, his calf muscle atrophied, leaving him with a noticeable limp.

The neurologist explained that the atrophies were responsible for the decline in her hand strength.

The doctor explained that yellow atrophy of the liver, a usually fatal fatty degeneration marked by jaundice, black vomit, delirium, convulsions, and coma, required immediate palliative care.

The pathologist's report listed several yellow atrophies in the liver samples.

After being diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, she joined a support group to learn about treatments and therapies.

Researchers are investigating how spinal muscular atrophies, a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the degeneration of lower motor neurons and atrophy of muscle groups, progress from infancy to adulthood.