Noun:

1. a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

2. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use)

Verb:

1. undergo atrophy;

   "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"
   

1.（肌肉或身体其他部分）萎缩
If a muscle or other part of the bodyatrophies, it decreases in size or strength, often as a result of an illness.

e.g. Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame...
斯科特的肌肉萎缩,一条腿发育不完全，成了个瘸子。
e.g. Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.
病人们在泳池里锻炼萎缩的四肢。

2.（事物的尺寸、程度、影响力等由于不使用或未受到保护而）变小，退化
If somethingatrophies, its size, degree, or effectiveness decreases because it is not used or protected.

e.g. If you allow your mind to stagnate, this particular talent willatrophy...
如果你老不用脑，那么这一特殊才能就会退化。
e.g. Many hoped he would renew the country's atrophied political system.
很多人都期望他能使该国萎靡的政治体系振作起来。

1. 萎缩, 萎缩症：anthology 诗选, 文选 |atrophy 萎缩, 萎缩症 | trophy 战利品, 奖品

2.

2. 萎缩 萎縮; 減縮現象：atrio 火口原,锥间谷 火山口源 Y |atrophy 萎缩 萎縮; 減縮現象 Y | attractant 引诱剂 誘引物質 Y

3. 萎縮;減縮現象：atrio lake 火山口湖 |atrophy 萎縮;減縮現象 | attached algae 附著藻

• Organs are strengthened by exercise and atrophied by disuse.

  出自：J. S. Mill

• The pressure of commercial life has crushed and atrophied that creative impulse completely.

  出自：R. Fry

• She was too old to learn anything new and..her brain had become atrophied.

  出自：B. Pym

(figurative,formal)The cultural life of the country will sink into atrophy unless more writers and artists emerge.

如果没有更多的作家和艺术家出现，这个国家的文化生活将衰退。

(figurative)Memory can atrophy through lack of use.

记忆力不常使用就会衰退。

atrophied muscles

萎缩的肌肉

atrophied religious values

淡化的宗教价值观念

Scott's muscle atrophied, his leg became stunted, and he was left lame...

斯科特的肌肉萎缩,一条腿发育不完全，成了个瘸子。

Patients exercised their atrophied limbs in the swimming pool.

病人们在泳池里锻炼萎缩的四肢。

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

如果你老不用脑，那么这一特殊才能就会退化。

Many hoped he would renew the country's atrophied political system.

很多人都期望他能使该国萎靡的政治体系振作起来。

Personal computer market is in atrophy in.

个人电脑市场正处于萎缩中.

Learning keeps our minds active and alert which helps prevent mental atrophy.

但学习让我们的头脑保持活跃和警觉有助于预防精神萎缩.

Objective To carry out prenatal gene diagnosis in a pedigree of infantile spinal muscular atrophy ( SMA ) .

目的对一婴儿型脊肌萎缩 症 家系进行产前 基因诊断.

Later network bubble burst, domestic telecommunication invests atrophy.

之后网络股泡沫破裂, 国内电信投资萎缩.

Unlike skeletal muscles, facial muscles do not immediately start to atrophy.

面肌不象骨骼肌, 面肌不会马上开始萎缩.

This is cerebral atrophy in a patient with Alzheimer's disease.

图示一例阿尔茨海默氏病患者萎缩的大脑.

Here is anterior vermian atrophy of the cerebellum in a patient with chronic alcoholism.

慢性酒精中毒病人小脑蚓部前部萎缩.

Seek the place that treats optic atrophy, urgent urgent!

寻求治疗视神经萎缩的地方, 急急急!

Prediction of longitudinal brain atrophy in multiple sclerosis by gray matter magnetic resonance imaging T 2 hypointensity.

灰质磁共振成像T2低密度对多发性硬化症时纵向脑萎缩的预测.

Finally: 76 examples smoothly have executed the appendectomy, the atrophy occurrence, a margin issue heals.

结果: 76例均顺利施行了阑尾切除术, 无肠痿发生, 切口均一期愈合.

What's the difference between atrophy and involution?

萎缩和退化的区别是什么?

Purpose : To observe combine traditional and western medicine function of treating optic atrophy.

目的: 观察中西医结合疗法治疗视神经萎缩的疗效.

A patient with atrophy blanche is reported.

报告白色萎缩1例.

Not only apoptosis also atrophy and necrosis could be observed in prostatic tissue after castration.

去势不仅导致前列腺细胞的凋亡病变,还引起萎缩、坏死病变.

Muscles that are not used will atrophy.

肌肉经常不用就会萎缩.

It characterized by acute or subacute loss of central vision and optic atrophy.

该病主要表现为急性或亚急性双侧中心视力丧失、视神经萎缩.

Objective To study the further result of treating the hemifacial atrophy with the free adipofascial flap.

目的:探讨游离肩胛脂肪筋膜瓣修复单侧颜面萎缩的远期疗效.

Because clinical case shows: 98 % for adenocarcinoma of prostate gland atrophy, often from peripheral.

因为临床病例显示: 98%为腺癌, 常从前列腺萎缩的外周发生.

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

肠壁薄,几乎是透明的,这可能是因绒毛萎缩.

Female patients can be accompanied by vaginal dryness, burning, genital atrophy.

女性患者还可伴有阴道干燥, 烧灼感, 外阴萎缩.

Striated muscle cells became degeneration, swelling and atrophy.

横纹肌纤维变性 、 肿胀,细胞萎缩.