萎い縮しゅく症しょう

noun

atrophy

Medical term for the wasting away or shrinkage of a body part or tissue, often used in compound disease names.

• 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衰おとろえる病びょう気きです。

  Muscular atrophy is a disease in which muscles gradually weaken.

• 彼かれは脊せき髄ずい性せい筋きん萎い縮しゅく症しょうと診しん断だんされた。

  He was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.