disused

Examples of disuse

disuse
These results support the notion that competitive mechanisms rather than sensory disuse are responsible for gross morphological remodeling of geniculocortical arbors.
Every use of a structure has a positive impact on its degree of entrenchment, whereas extended periods of disuse have a negative impact.
The key to the cabinet was rusty from many years of disuse.
In the other villages, for various reasons, there are tanks, but they have fallen into disuse.
When the monarchy was no longer in existence and this central authority had vanished, the law ceased to be relevant and so fell into disuse.
The key to the cabinets was rusty from many years of disuse.
Sometimes, we know they had fallen into disuse.
Words fall into disuse for many reasons, but they rarely disappear altogether, even if their survival is only on paper.
Effects of sensory disuse on geniculate afferents to cat visual cortex.
The low rent (icare-i mu'eccele) was normally granted to those who promised to repair a property that had fallen into disuse.
It becomes inaccessible with disuse, but is retrievable with the right cues.
Approximately half of the flats there had fallen into disuse by the mid 1980s.
Today this practice of singing has fallen into disuse, and the singers of the greater choir sing all the psalms and whatever remains.
These studies examined forced exercise before the onset of initial training20 and disuse associated with stalling21.
Active use or disuse of an organ or function, such as the blacksmith's forearm, or the mole's eyes, might also be a source of variation.
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