atrophic

IPA: ʌtrˈɑfɪk

adjective

  • (medicine) Of, pertaining to, or arising from atrophy
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Examples of "atrophic" in Sentences

  • People with a stomach or intestinal disorder, such as atrophic gastritis
  • Stretch marks are technically atrophic scars, meaning the skin is thinner and pulled.
  • DIGESTIVE TONIC Treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcer and chronic atrophic gastritis; improvement of indigestion
  • Those open indentations are called patulous or atrophic scars, and there are ice pick scars that look like tiny indented slivers on the skin.
  • I was, and am, a rumpish, atrophic female, with a Dr. Demento nimbus of ochre hair and the fuddled, myopic gaze of a small subterranean animal.
  • There are combination antifungalsteroid creams available, but the risk is that overusing steroid cream on sensitive private parts or the face can lead to a thinning out of the skin permanently, with what are called “atrophic changes.”
  • Roorback was becoming an online cesspool, slowly draining and dangerously atrophic—except everyone was a little bit brilliant, what with the embedded literary allusions and clever turns of phrase, the meta-references and nuanced understanding of irony.

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