disuse

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Disuse atrophy applies to sedentary muscles in the same way it does the cognitive decline seen in dementia.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2022

Disuse also means atrophy of muscles, not least of which the heart: after long stints in orbit, astronauts have returned with slightly smaller hearts than people on Earth.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2016

Q: "Disuse syndrome,"you write, should be recognized as the real leading cause of death.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2010

Darwin also laid stress, particularly in his later works, on Use and Disuse, but he often defined the term more specifically than many other authors, Lamarck among them, seem to have done.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

The Method of Disuse This method is largely negative.

From Principles of Teaching by Bennion, Adam S.