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Definition of Abiotrophy
1. Noun. A loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury.
Definition of Abiotrophy
1. Noun. (medicine) degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) the associated hereditary disease of abiosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Abiotrophy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Abiotrophy
Literary usage of Abiotrophy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1904)
"Second Scries—"Subjective Sensations of Sight and Sound, abiotrophy and otber
Lectures ... In neural abiotrophy, the slow decay or " failure to live on " is ..."
2. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"Compare with the foregoing the views presented by Cowers " in regard to " diseases
from defect of life " to which he gives the designation " abiotrophy " to ..."
3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"... constituting what might be called an abiotrophy, its progress explained as
follows: The increase in the neuralgia is like that in neuronic abiotrophy, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"... we speak of it as 'degeneration' ; but the process is in many cases—perhaps
in most— an essential failure of vitality." The term "abiotrophy" desig- ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"... we speak of it as 'degeneration' ; but the process is in many cases—perhaps
in most— an essential failure of vitality." The term "abiotrophy" desig- ..."
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