atrophy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.tɹə.fi/

Noun

atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)

1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.]

Derived terms

• atrophic
• fibroatrophy
• hemiatrophy
• lipoatrophy
• panatrophy
• pseudoatrophy
• yellow atrophy

 

Translations

reduced functionality

• Albanian: atrofi (sq)
• Bulgarian: атрофия (bg) (atrofija)
• Catalan: atròfia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zakrnění n
• Danish: atrofi c
• Dutch: atrofie (nl) f
• Esperanto: atrofio
• Faroese: svinn n
• Finnish: atrofia (fi), surkastuneisuus
• French: atrophie (fr) f
• German: Atrophie (de) f
• Greek: ατροφία (el) f (atrofía)
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• Icelandic: rýrnun m
• Interlingue:
• Italian: atrofia (it)
• Lithuanian: atrofija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: atrofi m

  Nynorsk: atrofi m

• Polish: atrofia (pl) f
• Portuguese: atrofia (pt) f
• Romanian: atrofie (ro) f, atrofiere (ro) f
• Russian: атрофи́я (ru) f (atrofíja)
• Spanish: atrofia (es) f
• Swedish: atrofi (sv) c

Verb

atrophy (third-person singular simple present atroph, present participle ies, simple past and past participle atrophied)

1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. [from early 18th c.]
2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Antonyms

• hypertrophy
• strengthen

Translations

wither

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: атрофирам (bg) (atrofiram)
• Catalan: atrofiar-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: zakrnět
• Finnish: surkastua (fi), näivettyä (fi)
• French: atrophier (fr)
• German: absterben (de)
• Greek: ατροφώ (el) (atrofó), μαραίνομαι (el) (maraínomai)
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• Ido: atrofiar (io)
• Interlingue:
• Lithuanian: atrofuoti, atrofuotis
• Maori: whakamemeke
• Portuguese: atrofiar (pt)
• Romanian: atrofia (ro)
• Spanish: atrofiarse (es)
• Swedish: atrofiera (sv)
• Turkish: körelmek (tr)

See also

• -trophy
• hypotrophy

Further reading

• atrophy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia