atrophy : Idioms & Phrases
Progressive muscular atrophy
(Med.) , a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.
Webster 1913
Yellow atrophy
(Med.) , a fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.
