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