筋きん萎い縮しゅく症しょう

noun

muscular atrophy; amyotrophy

Medical term for the wasting or loss of muscle tissue. Often used in compound disease names like 脊髄性筋萎縮症 (spinal muscular atrophy).

• 筋きん萎い縮しゅく症しょうは、筋きん肉にくが徐じょ々じょにやせていく病びょう気きです。

  Muscular atrophy is a disease in which muscles gradually waste away.

• 脊せき髄ずい性せい筋きん萎い縮しゅく症しょうの治ち療りょう法ほうが進しん歩ぽしている。

  Treatments for spinal muscular atrophy are advancing.