Muscle Atrophy
The book addresses the development of muscle atrophy, which can be caused by denervation, disuse, excessive fasting, aging, and a variety of diseases including heart failure, chronic kidney diseases and cancers.
Brain and Spinal Cord Atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis
... atrophy in multiple sclerosis ( MS ) . Progressive CNS atrophy in MS has been recognized for many years . Early computed tomography ( CT ) studies showed that atrophy can develop within one year of the diagnosis in MS patients , and ...
Quarterly Cumulative Index to Current Medical Literature. V. 1-12; 1916-26
... ATROPHY infantile atrophy , [ J. Robinson ] California State J.Med . 19 : 436 , Nov. '21 -injection of mother's blood in infants with tendency to atrophia , [ Z. v . Barabás ] Ztschr.f.Kinderh . 30:86 , Aug. '21 ; ab . J.A.M.A. 77 ...
The Ophthalmic Year Book ...
... atrophy exhibiting unusual and interesting symptoms . Unilateral optic atrophy due to syphilis in a 13 year old girl . Vision in the affected eye which was reduced to the faintest light perception in the begin- ning improved to hand ...
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
... ATROPHY . G. L. WALTON ( Boston Med . and Surg . Journal , August 1 , 1889 ) calls atten- tion to the early occurrence of optic atrophy in locomotor ataxia , and says that in persons in whom there exists this atrophy without ...
A Treatise on Orthopedic Surgery
... Atrophy . Atrophy is an important sign of joint disease . It is often appreciable to the eye and to the hand , and it is always demonstrable by measurement . It is an important symptom , because , if well - marked , it shows that the ...
A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat
... atrophy ; and , although the process is the same , in an atrophy from lessened nutrition , if nutrition be supplied , the tissue may again return to the normal , but the atrophic condition as it existed is identical with any other ...
Journal of the American Medical Association
... atrophy of the nerv- ous corpuscles is the consequence of the compression of hardened collagenous tissues on the nervous ramifica- tions , or whether the atrophic condition causes disorders of nutrition in the tissues of the skin , with ...
The Clinical Journal
... atrophy , of the Landouzy- Déjerine form , or of Duchenne's type . It is evident from what I have already said , that this case of muscular atrophy I have presented to you does not fit in with any of the types I have discussed with you ...
A Dictionary of New Medical Terms
... atrophy of the liver . A. a crinibus , emaciation of infants ascribed to the presence of prick- ing hairs on their backs . A. a fascino . See . ver- minesa . A. anglica . See A. nervosa . A. cacho- chymica , that due to indigestible ...
Medical Journal of Australia
... Atrophy of Muscle . Atrophy of muscle may be divided into four main heads : simple , degenerative , neuropathic , primary myopathic or dystrophic . Simple atrophy is found in inanition from any cause ( marantic atrophy ) . In many cases ...
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children
... Atrophy conveyed the idea of degeneration . The uterus . did not degenerate , but simply returned approximately to ... atrophy to be a physiological process . He suggested that the term atrophy be changed and the condition called ...
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
... atrophy in case the atrophy jumps from the affected part to some other portion of the body . In many cases of progressive muscular atrophy of the typical form , the histories show that the disease was first noticed after some accident ...
Report of the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry
... atrophy of man . The disease described under this name in the veterinary litera- ture does not correspond with that under discussion , as will be shown in the course of this paper . Under the name of parenchymatous Hepatitis a disease ...
American Homoeopathist
... atrophy of the paralyzed limbs and various de- formities , but withal , complete pre- servation of the mental faculties . Hæmatomyelia or apoplexy of the spinal cord gives rise to a suddenly appearing paralysis which may be followed by ...
System of Diseases of the Eye
... Atrophy of the optic nerve 19 0.751 Retinitis pigmentosa 19 0.751 Amaurosis from retinal atrophy 2 0.079 Anomalies of the cornea 5 0.198 Tumors 1 0.039 Undetermined forms of amaurosis 6 0.237 Total 97 3.835 II . - Blindness due to ...
The Dublin Journal of Medical Science
... atrophy with amyloid degeneration . He holds that in these cases the atrophy is always primary , and that the so - called third or atrophic stage of the amyloid kidney does not exist . Against Weigert he urges that the existence of ...
Edinburgh Medical Journal
... atrophy of the sternomastoids , atrophy of the vasti of the thighs and dorsiflexors of the feet , and a slow relaxation of certain muscles after contraction . The more forcible the contraction , the slower the relaxation . " Among 29 ...
Diseases of the skin
... ATROPHY . This may be local or general . The type of general atrophy is senile atrophy , the characters of which are known to all . Local cutaneous atrophy includes several varieties : ( 1 ) idiopathic local atrophy ; ( 2 ) local atrophy ...
Selections from the Clinical Works of Dr. Duchenne (de Boulogne).
... atrophy of the cells of the spinal cord in progressive muscular atrophy is shown by the hypertrophy of the vessels of the anterior cornua , by the thickening of their walls , and the increase of their nuclei . The production of ...