atrophy
11Atrophy — 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. * * * A wasting of tissues, organs, or the entire body, as from… …
12atrophy — [[t]æ̱trəfi[/t]] atrophies, atrophying, atrophied 1) VERB If a muscle or other part of the body atrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness. [FORMAL] Scott s muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was… …
13atrophy — {{11}}atrophy (n.) a wasting away through lack of nourishment, 1620s (atrophied is from 1590s), from Fr. atrophie, from L.L. atrophia, from Gk. atrophia a wasting away, noun of state from atrophos ill fed, un nourished, from a not + trophe… …
14atrophy — noun (plural phies) Etymology: Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a + trephein to nourish Date: 1601 1. decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; also arrested development or loss of a part or organ… …
15atrophy — n. the wasting away of a normally developed organ or tissue due to degeneration of cells. This may be physiological or pathological. Physiological atrophy occurs during embryonic life and the neonatal period (web spaces, notochord, umbilical… …
16atrophy — 1. verb muscles atrophy in microgravity Syn: waste away, become emaciated, wither, shrivel (up), shrink; decay, decline, deteriorate, degenerate, weaken Ant: strengthen, flourish 2. noun muscular atrophy Syn …
17atrophy — I UK [ˈætrəfɪ] / US noun [uncountable] medical a medical condition in which a part of your body becomes weaker or smaller because you are not using it or because blood is not reaching it II UK [ˈætrəfɪ] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word… …
18atrophy — at•ro•phy [[t]ˈæ trə fi[/t]] n. v. phied, phy•ing 1) a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage 2) degeneration or decline, as from disuse 3) to affect with atrophy 4) to undergo atrophy;… …
19atrophy — /ˈætrəfi / (say atruhfee) noun 1. Pathology wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or other cause. 2. degeneration; reduction in size and functional power through lack of use. –verb (atrophied, atrophying)… …
20atrophy — at|ro|phy [ˈætrəfi] v past tense and past participle atrophied present participle atrophying third person singular atrophies [I and T] [Date: 1600 1700; : Late Latin; Origin: atrophia becoming smaller or weaker , from Greek, from atrophos badly… …
