Definitions for atrophy

atrophy at·ro·phy

Spelling: [a-truh-fee]
IPA: /ˈæ trə fi/

Atrophy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in atrophy (ahoprty).

Definitions for atrophy

noun

  1. Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. 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:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to affect with or undergo atrophy.

Origin of atrophy

1590-1600; earlier atrophie (Middle French) Late Latin atrophia Greek, equivalent to átroph(os) not fed (see a-6, tropho-) + -ia

Examples for atrophy

But the atrophy of responsibility proved the canker at the heart of the Empire.

The victim of obesity has no sympathies with the martyr to atrophy; he may envy, he cannot pity him.

In at least this age and country it exists as the atrophy of a cureless decline.

They pay the penalty in an atrophy of the faculties of reflection and representation.

Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?

The ovary of aconites, according to Moquin, is very subject to atrophy.

Still, the atrophy continued, as did the collapse of Vatican-backed dictatorships in Portugal, Spain and Latin America.

It hinders the immune system, causes insomnia, and speeds the atrophy of the brain, to name a few.

atrophy is partial and special in its operation, nanism is general.

Our faculties, like our jaws, atrophy if we do not use them to bite with.

Word Value for atrophy
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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