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Atrophy-1. Pathology. The emaciation or wasting of tissues, organs, or the entire body. 2. Any wasting away or diminution: moral atrophy. --v. atrophied, phying, phies. --tr. To cause to wither; affect with atrophy, --intr. To waste away; wither. Late Latin atrophia, form Greek, from atrophos, ill nourished: a-, without + trophe, nourishment (see threph- in Appendix*) --atropic,atrophous adj.
Sun-1. A star that is the basis of the solar system and that sustains life on Earth, being the source of heat and light. It has a mean distance from Earth of about 93 million miles, a diameter of approximately 864,000 miles, and a mass about 330,000 times that of Earth. 2. Any star that is the center of a planetary system. 3. The radiant energy, especially heat and visible light, emitted by the sun: sunshine. --a place in the sun. A dominant or favorable position or situation.
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