Medical Definition of Atrophia
1. Synonym: atrophy. Origin: G. Fr. A-priv. + trophe, nourishment (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrophia
Literary usage of Atrophia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"In yeneral atrophia cutis the skin becomes thinned and stretched, and seems as if
... A remarkable case of atrophia cutis fell under our observation in 1849 ..."
2. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Moriz Kaposi (1874)
"... of the skin sometimes represents a peculiar, substantive morbid process—atrophia
... or a consequence of some other disease of the skin—atrophia cutis ..."
3. Pathology and treatment of diseases of the skin: For Practitioners and Students by Moriz Kaposi (1895)
"atrophia CUTIS PROPRIA. ATROPHY of the skin proper occurs as a diminution in the
mass of the general integument or as an abnormality in its ..."
4. A Compend of diseases of the skin by Jay Frank Schamberg (1905)
"atrophia CUTIS. unequal distribution of coloring-matter. ... atrophia SENILIS (Senile
Atrophy). This term is applied to the degenerative cutaneous changes ..."
5. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"atrophia SENILIS. Synonyms.—Senile atrophy ; atrophia cutis senilis. Symptoms.—Senile
changes in the skin usually develop slowly, and consist in the main of ..."
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