atrophy

• n.萎縮、ジストロフィー、発達停止
• vi.萎縮、萎縮

接頭辞 a-, not, ではない。根元のトロフィー、栄養については、肥大、栄養過多を参照。

atrophy (n.)

"a wasting away through lack of nourishment," 1620s (atrophied is from 1590s), from French atrophie, from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia "a wasting away," noun of state from atrophos "ill-fed, un-nourished," from a- "not" + trophe "nourishment," from trephein "to fatten" (see -trophy).

atrophy (v.)

1822 (implied in atrophied), from atrophy (n.). Related: Atrophying.

1. The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.

これ以上作家や芸術家が現れなければ、この国の文化生活は衰退するだろう。

2.If you allow your mind to stagnate，this particular talent will atrophy .

頭を使わないと、この特殊な才能は退化します。

3.The wall is thin and almost transparent probably due to atrophy of the villi.

腸壁は薄く、ほとんど透明で、これは絨毛の萎縮による可能性がある。

4.Under the international finance crisis shadow，bulk commodity demand atrophy is serious.

国際金融危機の影で、大口商品需要の萎縮が深刻だ。

5.The papilla shows initially sickle-shaped and later annular atrophy .

視**は初期病理形態として現れ、後に環状萎縮として現れた。