Atrophy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ATROPHY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to waste away
• (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution
• gradually decline in effectiveness or vigour due to underuse or neglect
• To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
• To waste away; to dwindle.
• undergo atrophy
• (cause to) waste away
NOUN:
• the process of atrophying or state of having atrophied
• wasting away of an organ or part
• A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
• a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
• any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

Words related to ATROPHY

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Words that contain ATROPHY

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How to use ATROPHY in a sentence

• The most tragic consequence of dependence on the complex machinery of a foreign government is the atrophy of the communal sense.
• This atrophy of the os pedis is best noted at the wings.
• Contraction of long standing, where atrophy of the sub-lying, soft structures and the pedal bone may be expected, will prove obstinate to treatment.
• The atrophy of the frog thus occurring, the deterioration in the quality of its horn and the fissures in its surface lay it specially open to infection.
• The horn of the walls in this region, and the horn of the frog, is thereby put out of action and induced to atrophy.
• It is, perhaps, even more likely to be confounded with contraction when we have with the contraction a state of atrophy and thrush of the frog.
• How soon they would die of atrophy, if they, who influence the public mind and mould public opinion, would tell but the simple truth about abolitionists.
• In their case, therefore, a sort of moral and intellectual atrophy becomes gradually more and more perceptible.
• There are sixty millions of Irish money lying in the banks throughout this country, yet the nation is perishing from atrophy, starving for want of commercial nourishment.
• The symptoms may be mistaken for phosphorus-poisoning or acute yellow atrophy of the liver.
• The little towns of the West depend entirely upon the surrounding country for their subsistence, and, when the peasantry are poor, gradually undergo commercial atrophy.
• It will be admitted by every one that a part of the body which is much used tends to increase in size, or strength, and similarly that a part which is not used tends to atrophy.
• A few years back, in assisting at the harvest, he had strained himself internally, and induced an atrophy.
• All this is the result of the atrophy of that faculty to worship and wonder which alone induces the mood from which the creation of beauty springs.
• In its realistic hours local color in New England liked to examine the atrophy of the emotions which in these stories often grows upon the celibate.
• Continuous and emphatic development of the intellectual may result in the atrophy of the power of appreciation in any given field either temporarily or permanently.
• Such an atrophy might indeed become general, and God would in that case disappear from human experience as music would disappear if universal deafness attacked the race.
• The effect of atrophy is also seen in the diminution of all functions, and in loss of weight in individual organs.
• The atrophy affects different organs in different degree and shows great variation in situation, in degree and in progress.

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