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Atrophy

Atrophy Meaning & Definition
Atrophy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Atrophy?

[n] any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
[n] a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
[v] undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Atrophy: wasting | wasting away | withering

Related Terms | Find terms related to Atrophy: abnormality | abscess | acute disease | affection | affliction | ague | ailment | allergic disease | allergy | anemia | ankylosis | anoxia | apnea | asphyxiation | asthma | ataxia | attenuation | backache | bacterial disease | birth defect | bleeding | blennorhea | blight | cachexia | cachexy | cardiovascular disease | chill | chills | chronic disease | circulatory disease | colic | complaint | complication | condition | congenital defect | constipation | consume | consume away | consumption | convulsion | coughing | cyanosis | decadence | declension | declination | decline | defect | deficiency disease | deformity | degeneracy | degeneration | degenerative disease | devolution | diarrhea | disability | disease | disorder | distemper | dizziness | downfall | downgrade | dribble away | dropsy | drying | drying up | dysentery | dyspepsia | dyspnea | edema | emaceration | emaciate | emaciation | endemic | endemic disease | endocrine disease | epidemic disease | fainting | fatigue | fever | fibrillation | flux | functional disease | fungus disease | gastrointestinal disease | genetic disease | growth | handicap | hemorrhage | hereditary disease | high blood pressure | hydrops | hypertension | hypotension | iatrogenic disease | icterus | illness | indigestion | indisposition | infectious disease | infirmity | inflammation | insomnia | itching | jaundice | labored breathing | low blood pressure | lumbago | malady | malaise | marasmus | marcescence | morbidity | morbus | muscular disease | nasal discharge | nausea | necrosis | neurological disease | nutritional disease | occupational disease | organic disease | pain | pandemic disease | paralysis | parching | pathological condition | pathology | pine away | plant disease | preshrinkage | protozoan disease | pruritus | psychosomatic disease | rash | respiratory disease | rheum | rockiness | run to seed | run to waste | Sanforizing | sclerosis | searing | secondary disease | seediness | seizure | shock | shrinkage | shrinking | shriveling | sickishness | sickness | signs | skin eruption | sneezing | sore | spasm | symptomatology | symptomology | symptoms | syndrome | tabes | tachycardia | the pip | thinning | tumor | upset stomach | urogenital disease | vertigo | virus disease | vomiting | wastage | waste | waste away | wasting | wasting disease | wilting | wither away | withering | worm disease

See Also | amyotrophia | amyotrophy | kraurosis | shrink | shrivel | shrivel up | symptom | tabes | weakening | wither

Atrophy In Webster's Dictionary

\At"ro*phy\, n. [L. atrophia, Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? to nourish: cf. F. atrophie.] A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. --Milton.
\At"ro*phy\, v. t. [p. p. {Atrophied}.] To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
\At"ro*phy\, v. i. To waste away; to dwindle.

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