The loss of an eye will be followed by atrophy of the optic nerve; the tissues in a stump of an amputated limb show atrophic changes; a paralysed limb from long disuse shows much wasting; and one finds at great depths of the sea fishes and marine animals, which have almost completely lost the organs of sight, having been cut off for long ages from the stimuli (light) essential for these organs, and so brought into an atrophic condition from disuse.
Her right leg was badly affected and eventually amputated.
The conduction through the amputated cell branches continues unimpaired for many hours.
Men just get their hands amputated for similar offenses.
The wounded man was shown his amputated leg stained with clotted blood and with the boot still on.
