Atrophy: alternatives and connections

To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.

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To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with…

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Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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of Weaken

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To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

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Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.

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of Waste

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of Wither

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