atrophy

atrophy
Synonyms and related words:
Sanforizing, abnormality, abscess, acute disease, affection, affliction, ague, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, attenuation, backache, bacterial disease, birth defect, bleeding, blennorhea, blight, cachexia, cachexy, cardiovascular disease, chill, chills, chronic disease, circulatory disease, colic, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, constipation, consume, consume away, consumption, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, decadence, declension, declination, decline, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degeneracy, degeneration, degenerative disease, devolution, diarrhea, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, dizziness, downfall, downgrade, dribble away, dropsy, drying, drying up, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaceration, emaciate, emaciation, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, growth, handicap, hemorrhage, hereditary disease, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, iatrogenic disease, icterus, illness, indigestion, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, malady, malaise, marasmus, marcescence, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pain, pandemic disease, paralysis, parching, pathological condition, pathology, pine away, plant disease, preshrinkage, protozoan disease, pruritus, psychosomatic disease, rash, respiratory disease, rheum, rockiness, run to seed, run to waste, sclerosis, searing, secondary disease, seediness, seizure, shock, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, sickishness, sickness, signs, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, tabes, tachycardia, the pip, thinning, tumor, upset stomach, urogenital disease, vertigo, virus disease, vomiting, wastage, waste, waste away, wasting, wasting disease, wilting, wither away, withering, worm disease

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Synonyms:
(from want of nourishment), , , ,


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  • atrophy — [a′trə fē] n. [< LL atrophia < Gr, a wasting away < a , not + trephein, to feed: see TROPHIC] a wasting away, esp. of body tissue, an organ, etc., or the failure of an organ or part to grow or develop, as because of insufficient… …   English World dictionary

  • Atrophy — At ro*phy, n. [L. atrophia, Gr. ?; a priv. + ? to nourish: cf. F. atrophie.] A wasting away from lack of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Atrophy — At ro*phy, v. t. [p. p. {Atrophied}.] To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Atrophy — At ro*phy, v. i. To waste away; to dwindle. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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