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Amyotrophy

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amyotrophy (ˌæmɪˈɒtrəfɪ)
 
n
pathol wasting of muscles, caused by disease of the nerves supplying them

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Amyotrophy is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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amyotrophy a·my·ot·ro·phy (ā'mī-ŏt'rə-fē, ām'ī-)
n.
Muscular wasting or atrophy. Also called amyotrophia.

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