| NOUN | state | wasting away, atrophy, wasting | a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse |
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| Meaning | A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse. | |
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| Synonyms | atrophy, wasting | |
| Narrower | amyotrophia, amyotrophy | progressive wasting of muscle tissues |
| kraurosis | atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane | |
| tabes | Wasting of the body during a chronic disease | |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| Spanish | atrofia | |
| Catalan | atròfia | |
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