Deterioration vs Atrophy - What's the difference?
deterioration | atrophy |
The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 4
, author=Lewis Smith
, title=Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?
, work=the Guardian
(pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
To wither or waste away.
To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
As nouns the difference between deterioration and atrophy
is that deterioration is the process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse while atrophy is a reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.As a verb atrophy is
to wither or waste away.deterioration
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