Amyotrophy

Introduction: Amyotrophy

Description of Amyotrophy

Amyotrophy: progressive wasting of muscle tissues.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Amyotrophy: Derangement in size and number of muscle fibers occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.
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Amyotrophy: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Amyotrophy:

• Progressive
• Progressive symptoms
• Progressive disease
• Wasting (351 causes)
• Wasting disease
• Wasting syndrome
• Muscle
• Muscle symptoms (7251 causes)
• Muscle disease

Terms associated with Amyotrophy:

Terms Similar to Amyotrophy:

• Muscle wasting

Source: Diseases Database

• amyotrophia

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Amyotrophy

• atrophy
• wasting
• wasting away

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Amyotrophy

The following list attempts to classify Amyotrophy into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• atrophy,wasting,wasting away
• symptom
• evidence,grounds
• information
• cognition,knowledge,noesis
• psychological feature

Source: WordNet 2.1

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