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Definitions of atrophy in various dictionaries:
noun - a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
noun - any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
verb - undergo atrophy
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| To waste away, like a muscle from disuse |
| To do this is to waste away due to lack of use, as a muscle can |
| You win a prize if you give us this term for an organ's shrinkage due to lack of use |
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| (of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and therefore strength, or, more generally, to become weaker: |
| (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution. |
| Gradually decline in effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect. |
| The process of atrophying or state of having atrophied. |
| gradually decline in effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect. |
| the process of atrophying or state of having atrophied. |
| any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) |
| a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse |
| undergo atrophy |
| 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. |
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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), poor nourishment, poor circulation, loss of hormonal support, loss of nerve supply to the target organ, excessive amount of apoptosis of cells, and disuse or lack of exercise or disease intrinsic to the tissue itself. In medical practice, hormonal and nerve inputs that maintain an organ or body part are said to have trophic effects. A diminished muscular trophic condition is designated as atrophy. Atrophy is reduction in size of cell, organ or tissue, after attaining its normal mature growth. In contrast, hypoplasia is the reduction in size of a cell, organ, or tissue that has not attained normal maturity. * Atrophy is the general physiological process of reabsorption and breakdown of tissues, involving apoptosis. When it occurs as a result of disease or loss of trophic support due to other disease, it is termed pathological atroph |