transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈa-trə-fē ]
noun
( plural -phies )
Etymology: Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a- + trephein to nourish
Date: 1601
1. : decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue ; also : arrested development or loss of a part or organ incidental to the normal development or life of an animal or plant
2. : a wasting away or progressive decline : degeneration
the atrophy of freedom
was not a solitude of atrophy , of negation, but of perpetual flowering — Willa Cather
• atro·phic (ˌ)ā-ˈtrō-fik adjective
• atrophy ˈa-trə-fē, -ˌfī verb