- 看过 atrophy 的人也看了 :
- degeneration
- decline
- downfall
- downgrade
- deterioration
- diminution
- degeneracy
atrophy 的 2 个定义
- Also a·tro·phi·a [uh-troh-fee-uh]. /əˈtroʊ fi ə/. Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.
at·ro·phied, at·ro·phy·ing.
- to affect with or undergo atrophy.
atrophy 近义词
wasting away, disintegration
atrophy 的近义词 7 个
atrophy 的反义词 6 个
更多atrophy例句
- Zolgensma—which treats spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease that damages nerve cells, leading to muscle decay—is currently the most expensive drug in the world.
- Their bodies begin to atrophy from malnourishment, and daily tasks like getting water or checking traps become much more of a struggle.
- Their weakness and pallor and mental atrophy and irregular heartbeats were in his mind akin to the etiolation of plants deprived of sunlight.
- Those skills often remain undeveloped in modern societies because we can compensate for their atrophy through sophisticated technology.
- The atrophy in my legs is terrible from taking so much time off, so it will be a tough recovery.
- If pilots are not flying, their skills atrophy and that could put their lives in danger.
- Still, the atrophy continued, as did the collapse of Vatican-backed dictatorships in Portugal, Spain and Latin America.
- He was born with spinal muscular atrophy, which kills 50 percent of the babies diagnosed with it before the age of 2.
- Five-month-old Avery Lynn Canahuati died Monday of complications from spinal muscular atrophy.
- It hinders the immune system, causes insomnia, and speeds the atrophy of the brain, to name a few.
- But a prolonged use of the visual mechanism tends to hypertrophy—or atrophy, as the eyes of deep-sea fishes show.
- And to one of his class, there are many forces ever present to atrophy such simple, wholesome power of loving.
- We may therefore conclude that its atrophy, like its development, takes place from before backwards.
- In stage L it is still fairly large in the tail, though it has begun to atrophy anteriorly.
- It is less developed than before, but is still present up to the period of the atrophy of the head-kidney.