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"Atrophy" Definition

noun

A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy.
Pathology A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
A wasting away or progressive decline .
Arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant.
Decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue.

verb-transitive

To cause to wither or deteriorate; affect with atrophy.

verb-intransitive

To waste away; wither or deteriorate.

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