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medical )医学 the condition of losing fat, muscle, strength, etc. in a part of the body because it does not have enough blood 萎缩 - (
medical )医学 muscle atrophy 肌肉萎缩 - (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。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French atrophier (verb), atrophie (noun), from late Latin atrophia, from Greek, ‘lack of food’, from a- ‘without’ + trophē ‘food’. - (