verb. atrophy [verb] (medical) (if a part of your body) to become weaker because not enough blood is reaching it or because it is not being used enough. The muscles in your legs can atrophy because of disease or lack of exercise.
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Atrophy
Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include mutations, poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support, loss of nerve supply to the ... Wikipedia
Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body. Causes of atrophy include mutations (which can destroy the gene to build up the organ)
1. decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue; atrophy of muscles; also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ.
Borrowed from French atrophie. Noun. edit. atrofi (definite accusative atrofiyi, plural atrofiler).
Atrophy: A wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is a decrease in muscle mass, often due to extended immobility.
Vaginal atrophy (atrophic vaginitis) is thinning, drying and inflammation of the vaginal walls that may occur when your body has less estrogen.
(pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.] Derived ...
medical (if a part of your body) to become weaker because not enough blood is reaching it or because it is not being used enough.
Listen to Atrofi on Spotify. Song · Hunter Forsberg · 2021.
