Wearing a cast on a broken leg can cause atrophy, or withering, in the leg, because it is immobilized and gets no exercise.
A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
Noun
any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)
Noun
a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Verb
undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"
n.
A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in
bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
v. t.
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or
weaken.
v. i.
To waste away; to dwindle.
Atrophy
Atrophy
Atrophy
A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
To waste away; to dwindle.
Usage Examples
The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Other Usage ExamplesMusic begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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