atrophy

[ US /ˈætɹəfi/ ]
[ UK /ˈætɹəfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
  2. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
VERB
  1. undergo atrophy
    Muscles that are not used will atrophy
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How To Use atrophy In A Sentence

  • The duodenal mucosa showed severe villous atrophy but no subepithelial collagen deposition.
  • Muscles biopsies also showed scattered atrophy consistent with the process of denervation.
  • Muscles that are not used will atrophy
  • Objective: To characterize the clinical and radiologic features of hemiparkinsonism- hemiatrophy syndrome (HPHA).
  • The physical examination revealed a 42 mm erythematous and violaceous, irregularly bordered plaque with intermittent atrophy, hypopigmentation, and scarring.
  • An MRI scan of the brain demonstrated cerebellar atrophy.
  • The physical examination should focus primarily on signs of liver disease other than jaundice, including bruising, spider angiomas, gynecomastia, testicular atrophy, and palmar erythema.
  • All 8 previously reported cases and the present case showed a variable degree of glandular atrophy.
  • Neither a topographical relation nor a morphologic transition was seen between prostatic atrophy and histologic carcinoma or high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia.
  • (glycogenic function of the liver, the consumption of glycogen through work of the muscles, the discovery of vascular nerves, the chemistry of the bile and the urine, theory of diabetes mellitus, assimiliation of sugar, atrophy of the pancreas, the power of the pancreatic juice to digest albumen, and the theory of animal heat). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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