atrophy
A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
Synonyms
- wasting
- wasting away
Related words
- atrogene
- atrophin
- dermatrophy
- encephalatrophy
- lipoatrophy
- yellow atrophy
- pseudoatrophy
- geographic atrophy
- hemiatrophy
- fibroatrophy
- panatrophy
- scleroatrophy
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἀτροφία" (a wasting away).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “atrophy” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.