atrophy

Cut off from everything that happens outside, mankind atrophies.
Coupé de tout ce qui arrive à l’extérieur, l’homme s’atrophie.
If the heart does not expand, it atrophies.
Sil ne se dilate pas, le cœur s’atrophie.
Adverse effects like atrophies of tendon and ligaments were also reported in animal studies and case studies of humans.
Des effets indésirables tels que des atrophies tendineuses et ligamentaires ont également été signalés dans des études menées sur des animaux et dans des études de cas chez l’homme.
According to Ruskin, the artist who generalizes by convention fails to make contact with nature and beauty, and as a result his art atrophies.
Selon Ruskin, l'artiste qui généralise par convention échoue en ce qu'il ne rentre pas en contact avec la nature et la beauté si bien que son art s'atrophie.
Thus, democracy atrophies, turns into a slogan, a formality; it loses its representative character and becomes disembodied, since it leaves out the people in their daily struggle for dignity, in the building of their future.
C’est ainsi que la démocratie s’atrophie, devient un nominalisme, une formalité, perd de sa représentativité, se désincarne car elle laisse le peuple en dehors, dans sa lutte quotidienne pour la dignité, dans la construction de son destin.
I have read that there's now actually evidence that the hippocampus, the part of our brain that handles spacial relationships, physically shrinks and atrophies in people who use tools like GPS, because we're not exercising our sense of direction anymore.
J'ai lu qu'il est prouvé que l'hippocampe, le partie du cerveau chargée de la navigation spatiale, rétrécit et s'atrophie chez les personnes qui utilisent un GPS car elles n'utilisent plus leur sens de l'orientation.
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