Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, atrophy of one half: as, facial hemiatrophy.
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Examples
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It is distinguished from one-sided muscular atrophy by the electric reaction, which is not lost in the facial muscles in facial hemiatrophy, and there is no atrophy of other muscles of the body.
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Burr 17.17 contributes an exhaustive paper on hemiatrophy of the tongue with report of a case as follows: ` ` L. B., female, mulatto, thirty-one years old, married, came to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia, September 23, 1895, complaining that her ` tongue was crooked. '
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Facial hemiatrophy is an incurable disease, as yet of unknown pathology.
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Facial hemiatrophy is an incurable disease, as yet of unknown pathology.
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It is distinguished from one-sided muscular atrophy by the electric reaction, which is not lost in the facial muscles in facial hemiatrophy, and there is no atrophy of other muscles of the body.
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Burr contributes an exhaustive paper on hemiatrophy of the tongue with report of a case as follows: "L. B., female, mulatto, thirty-one years old, married, came to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia,
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