dystrophic in English

adjective
1
affected by or relating to dystrophy, especially muscular dystrophy.
Observing the affected knee may reveal dystrophic changes, alteration of skin color, calluses related to kneeling or occupational abuse of the knee, scars, scratches, or rashes.
2
(of a lake) having brown acidic water that is low in oxygen and supports little life, owing to high levels of dissolved humus.
Both ponds are dystrophic , surrounded by extensive mats of Sphagnum, and stratified in summer with anoxic hypolimnia.

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1. Again, dystrophic Calcification means damaged tissue

2. There are five subtypes of calcinosis Cutis: dystrophic, metastatic, idiopathic, iatrogenic, and calciphylaxis

3. Patient with dystrophic Calcification in the Achilles tendon due to recurrent trauma and tendinitis

4. Accumulation of immature Autophagic vacuoles (AVs) in dystrophic neurites of Alzheimer patients’ brains suggests that Autophagy process is disrupted

5. Other tissues may Calcify following chronic inflammation or through mineralization of dead tissue (dystrophic calcification).

6. Our results also show that perch living in acidic, dystrophic Wharton Lake are not acid stressed.

7. Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa with junctional blisters includes both the classical epidermolysis bullosa hereditaria letalis Herlitz (Herlitz-Pearson type) and a recently separated more benign adult type.

8. Avitaminosis symptoms have the following - in the initial stage, the sensitivity of the cornea decreases and the dystrophic changes slowly build up, the normal gloss and humidity of the surface disappear

9. Thus the following were found: minimal recent autonomic nerve cell lesions in viral hepatitis in a child, reduced nervous lesions of the dystrophic and irritative type in viral hepatitis in adults with prevalent necrosis of the hepatic cells, intense autonomic nervous lesions in viral hepatitis associated with anterior gastritic processes, various associated autonomic nervous lesions of the acute and chronic type in recent necrotic hepatitis associated with older precirrhotic lesions and nervous lesions especially of the chronic type with intense ball-phenomenon and morphological changes of the synapses in liver cirrhosis.