A wasting of tissues, organs, or the entire body, as from death and reabsorption of cells, diminished cellular proliferation, decreased cellular volume, pressure, ischemia, malnutrition, lessened function, or hormonal changes. Syn: atrophia.
Origin
acute reflex bone atrophy
acute yellow atrophy of the liver
alveolar atrophy
arthritic atrophy
blue atrophy
brown atrophy
Buchwald’s atrophy
central areolar choroidal atrophy
cerebellar atrophy
choroidal vascular atrophy
compensatory atrophy
congenital cerebellar atrophy
cyanotic atrophy
cyanotic atrophy of the liver
dentatorubral cerebellar atrophy with polymyoclonus
disuse atrophy
Erb atrophy
essential progressive atrophy of iris
exhaustion atrophy
facioscapulohumeral atrophy
familial spinal muscular atrophy
fatty atrophy
gingival atrophy
gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina
Hoffmann’s muscular atrophy
horizontal atrophy
Hunt’s atrophy
idiopathic muscular atrophy
infantile muscular atrophy
infantile progressive spinal muscular atrophy
infantile spinal muscular atrophy
ischemic muscular atrophy
juvenile muscular atrophy
juvenile spinal muscular atrophy
Kienböck’s atrophy
Leber’s hereditary optic atrophy
linear atrophy
macular atrophy
marantic atrophy
muscular atrophy
myopathic atrophy
neuritic atrophy
neurogenic atrophy
neurotrophic atrophy
nutritional type cerebellar atrophy
olivopontocerebellar atrophy
periodontal atrophy
peroneal muscular atrophy
Pick’s atrophy
postmenopausal atrophy
pressure atrophy
primary idiopathic macular atrophy
primary macular atrophy of skin
progressive choroidal atrophy
progressive circumscribed cerebral atrophy
progressive infantile spinal muscular atrophy
progressive muscular atrophy
progressive spinal muscular atrophy
pulp atrophy
red atrophy
scapulohumeral atrophy
senile atrophy
serous atrophy
striate atrophy of skin
Sudeck’s atrophy
traction atrophy
transneuronal atrophy
trophoneurotic atrophy
villous atrophy
Vulpian’s atrophy
Werdnig-Hoffmann muscular atrophy
yellow atrophy of the liver
Zimmerlin’s atrophy