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Atrophy

"Atrophy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Decrease in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or multiple organs, associated with a variety of pathological conditions such as abnormal cellular changes, ischemia, malnutrition, or hormonal changes.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Atrophy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Atrophy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 89 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2018 and 2020 and 2022 and 2023
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