1) Amyotrophia 2) Amyotrophy 3) Contraction 4) Kraurosis 5) Shrivel 6) Stanley cup 7) Tabes
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1) Anatomical pathology 2) Any weakening or degeneration 3) Decline from disuse 4) Degenerate 5) Go downhill 6) Lose strength 7) Progressive decline 8) Result of nonuse 9) Stagnation 10) Symptom 11) To starve or weaken 12) To wither or waste away 13) Undergo atrophy 14) Waste away 15) Waste away from disuse
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• (v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle. • (v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken. • (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
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(L.; Gr. atrophia) a wasting away; a diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or part.
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A wasting of the tissues of a body part.
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decrease in size of a body part, cell, organ, or tissue. The term implies that the atrophied part was of a size normal for the individual, ... [2 related articles]
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A decrease in the size or wasting of a organ or tissue.
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<pathology> A wasting away, a diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ or part. ... Origin: L., Gr. Atrophia ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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(at´rә-fe) decrease in size of a normally developed organ or tissue; see also wasting. to undergo or cause such a decrease. adj., atroph´ic., adj.
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degeneration or shrinkage [Collins]
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At'ro·phy intransitive verb To waste away; to dwindle.
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At'ro·phy noun [ Latin
atrophia , Greek ...;
'a priv. + ... to nourish: confer French
atrophie .] A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
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At'ro·phy transitive verb [
past participle Atrophied ] To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
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A wasting away through cell degeneration.
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Atrophy: Wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is wasting of muscle, decrease in muscle mass. A nerve can also show atrophy. For example, atrophy of the optic nerve diminishes vision.
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(at;ruo-fe) A gradual wasting away or decrease in the size of a tissue or an organ.
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Atrophy is a wasting of the flesh due to some interference with the nutritive processes. It may arise from a variety of causes, such as permanent, oppressive, and exhausting passions, organic disease, a want of proper food or of pure air, suppurations in important organs, copious evacuations of blood, saliva, semen, etc, and it is also sometimes pr...
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(at'ro-fe) (Greek. A - want of + trophe - nourishment)
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atrophy, atrophying, atrophia 1. A wasting away, especially of body tissue, an organ, etc., or the failure of an organ or part to grow or develop, as a result of insufficient nutrition. 2. In pathology, a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage. 3. The degeneration, decline, or decrease, becaus...
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atrophy An award given to those who do not exercise. Dictionary sources of information: Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part One; Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part Two.
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Decrease in size and functional ability of tissue or organs.
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withering noun any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
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A wasting away or diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or part
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A wasting away of tissue usually through disuse.
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a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
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