atrophy

Apitegromab works by blocking a protein involved in the breakdown of muscle and is also being explored as a treatment for other medical conditions affecting muscles, including spinal muscular atrophy.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

In Asia, Hegseth reiterated that the region's security had "rested disproportionately on American military power, while many of our allies and partners allowed their own defence capabilities to atrophy".

From Barron's ● May 30, 2026

FDA documents describe it as a prescription device intended to improve visual acuity in patients with certain forms of dry AMD and without center involving geographic atrophy or neovascular maculopathy.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

They’ve become monuments to corporate greed — zones of atrophy, boredom and total disempowerment.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

He massaged Shin’s arms and legs so that his muscles would not atrophy.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Like any skill, it atrophies when we outsource the work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

"When you get machines thinking for you, your brain just atrophies."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025

As we age, our brain gradually atrophies, losing nerve cells and connections and this can lead to a decline in brain function.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

If astrophysicists don’t take big, new and different swings at dark matter, the search will only stagnate until it atrophies.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2023

Many of these atrophies from disuse are cured by mental influence of one kind or another.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

John’s left arm had atrophied, his hand now basically a claw, and two of his fingers were numb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The pandemic, for all its lessons, quietly atrophied some of our neighboring muscles, and many of us are still figuring out how to use them again.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

When we met him, he meandered across the field, atrophied by lack of exercise, sat on my foot and looked up with a hopeful demeanor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2024

He felt as if there was something atrophied between his eyes, where the base of the nose grew into the skull.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

But the Mayor’s Fund had been atrophying for years, with its donations shrinking to a fraction of what it raised under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

After exhausting holistic options, he saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Revenue fell 4 percent, largely because of the company’s atrophying cable television business, which includes CNN.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

"After two years, part of my brain was atrophying," one said.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024

Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, arms curled grotesquely at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below 80 pounds.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer