Atrophy

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"{.tr@.fi/}}

Noun

 * 1)  A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.

Verb

 * 1) To wither or waste away.

Antonyms

 * hypertrophy

Related terms

 * atrophic

Thesaurus
Sanforizing; abnormality; abscess; acute disease; affection; affliction; ague; ailment; allergic disease; allergy; anemia; ankylosis; anoxia; apnea; asphyxiation; asthma; ataxia; attenuation; backache; bacterial disease; birth defect; bleeding; blennorhea; blight; cachexia; cachexy; cardiovascular disease; chill; chills; chronic disease; circulatory disease; colic; complaint; complication; condition; congenital defect; constipation; consume; consume away; consumption; convulsion; coughing; cyanosis; decadence; declension; declination; decline; defect; deficiency disease; deformity; degeneracy; degeneration; degenerative disease; devolution; diarrhea; disability; disease; disorder; distemper; dizziness; downfall; downgrade; dribble away; dropsy; drying; drying up; dysentery; dyspepsia; dyspnea; edema; emaceration; emaciate; emaciation; endemic; endemic disease; endocrine disease; epidemic disease; fainting; fatigue; fever; fibrillation; flux; functional disease; fungus disease; gastrointestinal disease; genetic disease; growth; handicap; hemorrhage; hereditary disease; high blood pressure; hydrops; hypertension; hypotension; iatrogenic disease; icterus; illness; indigestion; indisposition; infectious disease; infirmity; inflammation; insomnia; itching; jaundice; labored breathing; low blood pressure; lumbago; malady; malaise; marasmus; marcescence; morbidity; morbus; muscular disease; nasal discharge; nausea; necrosis; neurological disease; nutritional disease; occupational disease; organic disease; pain; pandemic disease; paralysis; parching; pathological condition; pathology; pine away; plant disease; preshrinkage; protozoan disease; pruritus; psychosomatic disease; rash; respiratory disease; rheum; rockiness; run to seed; run to waste; sclerosis; searing; secondary disease; seediness; seizure; shock; shrinkage; shrinking; shriveling; sickishness; sickness; signs; skin eruption; sneezing; sore; spasm; symptomatology; symptomology; symptoms; syndrome; tabes; tachycardia; the pip; thinning; tumor; upset stomach; urogenital disease; vertigo; virus disease; vomiting; wastage; waste; waste away; wasting; wasting disease; wilting; wither away; withering; worm disease