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WASTING AWAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse
Synonyms:
atrophy; wasting; wasting away
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("wasting away" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wasting away"):
amyotrophia; amyotrophy (progressive wasting of muscle tissues)
tabes (wasting of the body during a chronic disease)
kraurosis (atrophy and shriveling of the skin or mucous membrane)
