dystrophy

English

WOTD – 24 February 2011

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dystrophy

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• dystrophia

Etymology

From dys- +‎ -trophy, literally “bad growth”, as in the opposite of growth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪstɹəfi/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dystrophy (countable and uncountable, plural dystrophies)

1. A wasting of body tissues, of either genetic origin or due to inadequate or defective nutrition.

Derived terms

• algodystrophy
• chondrodystrophy
• corneal dystrophy
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy
• dystrophic
• dystrophin
• epithelial dystrophy
• hemidystrophy
• leukodystrophy
• lipodystrophy
• muscular dystrophy
• myodystrophy
• myotonic dystrophy
• onychodystrophy
• osteodystrophy
• polydystrophy
• reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• twenty-nail dystrophy

Translations

dystrophy

Arabic: ضُمُور m (ḍumūr) Catalan: distròfia f Chinese: Mandarin: 萎縮症 / 萎缩症 (wěisuōzhèng) Estonian: düstroofia Finnish: dystrofia (fi), rappeutuminen (fi), surkastuminen (fi), rappeuma, surkastuma (fi) French: dystrophie (fr) f German: Dystrophie (de) f Greek: δυστροφία (el) f (dystrofía) Indonesian: distrofi Irish: diostróife f Italian: distrofia (it) f Japanese: ジストロフィー (jisutorofī) Persian: دشپروردگی (fa) (došparvardegī) Polish: dystrofia (pl) f Portuguese: distrofia (pt) f Russian: дистрофи́я (ru) f (distrofíja) Slovak: dystrofia f Spanish: distrofia (es) f Swedish: dystrofi (sv) c Vietnamese: sự loạn đường