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at·ro·phy    Audio Help   [a-truh-fee] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -phied, -phy·ing.
–noun
1.Also, a·tro·phi·a    Audio Help   [uh-troh-fee-uh] Pronunciation Key. Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
2.degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3.to affect with or undergo atrophy.

[Origin: 1590–1600; earlier atrophie (< MF) < LL atrophia < Gk, equiv. to átroph(os) not fed (see a-6, tropho-) + -ia -ia]

a·troph·ic    Audio Help   [uh-trof-ik, uh-troh-fik] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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at·ro·phy    Audio Help   (āt'rə-fē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. at·ro·phies
  1. Pathology A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
  2. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy.

v.   at·ro·phied, at·ro·phy·ing, at·ro·phies

v.   tr.
To cause to wither or deteriorate; affect with atrophy.

v.   intr.
To waste away; wither or deteriorate.


[Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophiā, from atrophos, ill-nourished : a-, without; see a-1 + trophē, food.]

a·troph'ic (ā-trŏf'ĭk) adj.
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