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Atrophy means muscle wasting or wasting of other body parts due to degeneration of cells

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According to the dictionary, it means, "Atrophy is the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body."

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An atrophy is a reduction in the functionality of an organ.

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What is a sentence using the word atrophied?

His muscles atrophied from being in bed so long.Alcohol can cause brain cells to become atrophied.If you don't use a language regularly, your ability to speak it will become atrophied.


Why flightless birds cannot fly?

Because their wings are atrophied.


Muscles that are decreasing in size are called?

atrophied or they are undergoing atrophy


Adjective for skinny that starts with a?

anorexic, anorectic, angular, atrophied


What is the term that describes organs that stop fuctioning and are reduced in size?

Atrophied


Muscles that remain unused for a peorid of time become?

They become atrophied.


Muscles that remain unused for a period of time will become?

They will become atrophied


What is a muscle is described as of having Atrophied?

When a muscle atrophies it usually became unsightly.


Can Stephen hawking walk?

Unfortunately, he can not. His muscles have atrophied beyond point of healing so he is confined to a wheelchair.


What blood related problems are most common in old people?

Pernicious anemia because the stomach mucosa atrophied with age


What condition results if muscles are not used such as when immobilized in a cast for healing a broken bone?

The muscles begin to become atrophied from disuse.