atrophyverb [ I ]
uk/ˈæt.rə.fi/us/ˈæt.rə.fi/(of a part of the body) to be reduced in size and therefore strength, or, more generally, to become weaker:
After several months in a hospital bed, my leg muscles had atrophied.
In the 1980s, their political power gradually atrophied (= became weaker).
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- catalepsy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- cramp
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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atrophy
noun [ U ] ukus