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Definition atrophy

Etymology

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ??????? (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (troph?, “nourishment”), from ????? (tréph?, “I fatten”).

Noun

atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)

1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.]

Verb

atrophy (third-person singular simple present atrophies, present participle atrophying, simple past and past participle atrophied)

1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. [from early 18th c.]
2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

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