Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to atrophy; characterized by atrophy; exhibiting or undergoing atrophy: as, an atrophic process; an atrophic organ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to atrophy.
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- adjective medicine Of, pertaining to, or arising from
atrophy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characterized by atrophy
Etymologies
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Examples
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People with a stomach or intestinal disorder, such as atrophic gastritis
Junkfood Science 2008
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DIGESTIVE TONIC Treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcer and chronic atrophic gastritis; improvement of indigestion
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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There are combination antifungalsteroid creams available, but the risk is that overusing steroid cream on sensitive private parts or the face can lead to a thinning out of the skin permanently, with what are called “atrophic changes.”
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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There are combination antifungalsteroid creams available, but the risk is that overusing steroid cream on sensitive private parts or the face can lead to a thinning out of the skin permanently, with what are called “atrophic changes.”
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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There are combination antifungalsteroid creams available, but the risk is that overusing steroid cream on sensitive private parts or the face can lead to a thinning out of the skin permanently, with what are called “atrophic changes.”
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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There are combination antifungalsteroid creams available, but the risk is that overusing steroid cream on sensitive private parts or the face can lead to a thinning out of the skin permanently, with what are called “atrophic changes.”
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Roorback was becoming an online cesspool, slowly draining and dangerously atrophic—except everyone was a little bit brilliant, what with the embedded literary allusions and clever turns of phrase, the meta-references and nuanced understanding of irony.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010
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I was, and am, a rumpish, atrophic female, with a Dr. Demento nimbus of ochre hair and the fuddled, myopic gaze of a small subterranean animal.
LIGHT FINGERS 2009
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Stretch marks are technically atrophic scars, meaning the skin is thinner and pulled.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Those open indentations are called patulous or atrophic scars, and there are ice pick scars that look like tiny indented slivers on the skin.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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