atrophy

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n. 萎缩, 萎缩症 [医] 萎缩

发音

其它 /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/

词形变化

atrophies 复数 atrophies atrophied atrophies 三单 atrophying atrophying 现在分词 atrophied 过去式 atrophied 过去分词

别名

atrophia

教材释义与例句

名词

萎缩，萎缩症；发育停止

动词

萎缩；虚脱

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    萎缩

    退化

    可数 不可数 医学
v.
  1. 1.

    To wither or waste away.

    萎缩

    衰退

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

    使萎缩

    使衰弱

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

wasting withering

上位词 2

symptom weakening

下位词 4

amyotrophia amyotrophy kraurosis tabes
动词

上位词 4

shrink wither shrivel shrivel up

相关短语

yellow atrophy [医] 黄色萎缩(肝) spinal muscular atrophy dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy geographic atrophy

词源

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “to fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy.

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