atrophy
atrophy 英 [ˈætrəfi] 美 [ˈætrəfi]
n. 萎缩，萎缩症；发育停止 vi. 萎缩；虚脱
进行时:atrophying 过去式:atrophied 过去分词:atrophied 第三人称单数:atrophies 名词复数:atrophies
- Wearing a cast on a broken leg can cause atrophy, or withering, in the leg, because it is immobilized and gets no exercise.
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- n. 萎缩，萎缩症；发育停止
- vi. 萎缩；虚脱
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1. Some areas of the brain, if not stimulated, will atrophy and die.
大脑的某些区域如果没有受到促进就会萎缩更甚死亡。
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2. I had surgery to remove it, but the size and location of the tumor caused my optic nerve to atrophy.
可以通过手术摘掉它，但是肿瘤的大小和位置造成我的视觉神经萎缩。
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3. The compounds "likely have an effecton motor neurons"—responsible for controlling movements—"but that isa hunch at present, based on the type of atrophy we saw, " Hughes said inan email.
这些化合物“可能对运动神经元（负责控制运动）产生作用”----“根据我们观察到的萎缩症类型，目前这只是个预测，”休斯在一封电子邮件中说。
- atrophy (n.) "a wasting away through lack of nourishment," 1610s (atrophied is from 1590s), from French atrophie, from Late Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia "a wasting away," abstract noun from atrophos "ill-fed, un-nourished," from a- "not, without" (see a- (3)) + trophe "nourishment," from trephein "to fatten" (see -trophy).
- atrophy (v.) "to waste away," 1808, from atrophy (n.). Related: Atrophied; atrophying.
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