Crossword-Solution: ATROPHIES
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| Falls into decline | 1 answer |
| Degenerates | 3 answers |
| Wastes away | 5 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEEZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ATROPHIES (5)
The anterior or upper part of the pedicle, which runs to the navel in the ventral wall of the embryo, atrophies subsequently, and only a useless string-like relic of it is left as a rudimentary organ; that is the single vesico-umbilical ligament.
When _Sacculina_ is present these substances are absorbed by the parasite; the ovary is deprived of them, and therefore atrophies.
Between thirty-five and fifty-five man stands on a tolerably firm foundation regarding health; after this the age atrophies begin, the effects of previous damage begin to be apparent, and the tumor incidence increases.
Some interest in each of these things arises in everybody at the proper age; but, if not persistently fed with the appropriate matter, instead of growing into a powerful and necessary habit, it atrophies and dies, choked by the rival interests to which the daily food is given.
The choice of our own reading enters here, not only the matter of reading in sociology, but of all reading, as to whether it blinds with class prejudices, intensifies caste feeling, or atrophies social sympathy by pandering to selfishness and sensuousness.
Quotes with ATROPHIES (3)
Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes, But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in vo…
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2017).