different between atrophy vs dysplasia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ??????? (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (troph?, “nourishment”), from ????? (tréph?, “I fatten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.t??.fi/

Noun

atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)

1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.]

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Verb

atrophy (third-person singular simple present atrophies, present participle atrophying, simple past and past participle atrophied)

1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. [from early 18th c.]
2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Antonyms

• hypertrophy
• strengthen

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See also

• -trophy
• hypotrophy

Further reading

• atrophy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

dys- +? -plasia

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-pl??zh?, IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?.??/

Noun

dysplasia (countable and uncountable, plural dysplasias)

1. (pathology) Abnormal development of cells or tissue, often a precancerous stage of growth.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dyspl?si?/, [?dys?pl??s?i?]
• Rhymes: -i?
• Syllabification: dysp?la?si?a

Noun

dysplasia

1. (pathology) dysplasia

Declension