英语词汇“atrophy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

atrophy

释义

the decrease in size, arrested development, or wasting away of a body part, organ, or tissue

a wasting away or progressive decline of something, esp through lack of use; degeneration

moral atrophy

atrophic /əʹtrofik/ adj

[late Latin from Greek atrophia, from atrophos ill fed, from a-² + trephein to nourish]

to undergo or cause (something) to undergo atrophy; to waste away or degenerate

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