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What is the adjective for atrophy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb atrophy which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

atrophic
  1. (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from atrophy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. vestigial, rudimentary, incomplete, undeveloped, embryonic, immature, abortive, degenerate, functionless, nonfunctioning, obsolete, primitive, useless, non-functional … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Clinical trials have not proved any drugs to be effective in preventing or treating atrophic or exudative age-related macular degeneration.”
      “Sometimes the lesions heal at one place with a white atrophic scar and then spread actively to the neighboring skin.”
      “There has also been an increased incidence of atrophic gastritis and achlorhydria in patients with gluten sensitivity.”
atrophied
  1. characterized by atrophy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. emaciated, thin, skinny, scrawny, gaunt, bony, lean, skeletal, angular, scraggy, undernourished, haggard, underfed, wasted, lank, pinched, cadaverous, starved, underweight, anorexic, attenuated, macilent, meagre, meager, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled, drawn, withered, weak, shrunken, peaked, skeletonlike, famished, phthisical, skin-and-bones, raw-boned, size-zero, half-starved, stick-like, thin as a rake, skin and bones, thin as rail, like a bag of bones, looking like a bag of bones, starveling, anorectic, fleshless, hollow-cheeked, spindle-shanked … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Careful examination of serial sections failed to ascertain the presence of true meristematic cells in these atrophied buds.”
      “This longing for joy is not a vestigial structure in a once functional lobe of our primordial brains that has become atrophied due to disuse.”
      “Damp and heat can invade the spleen causing muscle flaccidity and atrophied muscles.”
atrophying
  1. present participle of atrophy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. withering, weakening, wasting, fading, decaying, deteriorating, shrivelling, shriveling, degenerating, wilting, diminishing, shrinking, dwindling, waning, becoming emaciated, wasting away, becoming debilitated, growing weak, shriveling up, becoming shrunken, drying up, becoming enfeebled, fading away, emaciating, debilitating, devitalizing, sapping, enervating, disintegrating, etiolating, wizening, perishing, sinking, crumbling, pining away, sagging, worsening, exhausting, draining, consuming, depleting, gnawing, undermining, tiring, enfeebling, corroding, sapping the strength of, eating away, wearing out … more
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