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单词 atrophy
释义 atrophy
 —atrophic /euh trof"ik, euh troh"fik/,  adj.  
 /a"treuh fee/,  n.  ,  v.  , atrophied, atrophying.
  n.  
  1. Also, atrophia /euh troh"fee euh/. Pathol. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  2. degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.
  v.t.  ,  v.i.  
  3. to affect with or undergo atrophy.
 [1590-1600; earlier atrophie ( < MF) < LL atrophia < Gk, equiv. to átroph(os) not fed (see A-6, TROPHO-) + -ia -IA]
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