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What is the term that means reduction in the quantity of bone or atrophy of skeletal tissue often leading to fractures in the elderly?
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Osteoporosis
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What is reduction in the quantity of bone or atrophy of skeletal tissue?
Osteoporosis
Atrophy of skeletal tissue?
Possible in a zero gravity enviroment, if that's what you're asking. Along with muscle atrophy.
What is bone atrophy?
Atrophy is the wearing away of an organ or tissue because of lack of use. Bone Atrophy, obviously, is atrophy of bones.
What is periventricular atrophy?
what is periventricular atrophy?Type your answer here...
Is cerebral atrophy fatal?
Yes, in most cases cerebral atrophy is fatal. When the cerebral atrophy spreads to all of the brain, there is no chance for the person to live.
What is reduction in the quantity of bone or atrophy of skeletal tissue?
Osteoporosis
Atrophy of skeletal tissue?
Possible in a zero gravity enviroment, if that's what you're asking. Along with muscle atrophy.
A skeletal muscle may undergo as a result of lack of physical exercise?
atrophy
What does atrophied mean?
Atrophy means muscle wasting or wasting of other body parts due to degeneration of cells
What is amyotrophy?
Amyotrophy is another name for muscular atrophy - a reduction in functionality of a muscle due to disease or injury.
What is paraspinous atrophy?
Atrophy is the reduction in size and therefore strength of a muscle. This often occurs due to prolonged disuse or malnutrition, but several other causes are possible. Paraspinous atrophy simple refers to the loss of muscle mass in the area surrounding the spine.
Is loss of its nerve supply would cause denervation atrophy and paralysis of the skeletal muscle involved true?
Yes it is true.
What is progressive weakening and size reduction of muscle tissue which is usually the result of disease or disuse is called?
Atrophy is progressive weakening and size reduction of muscle tissue which is usually the result of disease or disuse.
What causes wastage of the right hip?
Firs of all arthritis or trauma to the hip joint followed by reduction in use followed by atrophy to the surrounding muscles
What is ventricular atrophy of the heart?
It is a reduction in the size of a cardiac ventricle. This can be due to prolonged immobilization or from the tissue degeneration (wasting away), that follows with debilitating chronic illnesses.
What is Moderate cortical atrophy and scattered areas of chronic ischemic white matter changes of the brain?
'Atrophy' just means a reduction in size, due to disuse or disease. The cerebral cortex is the grey-matter (outer layer) of the brain that contains the neural cell bodies; as opposed to the white-matter which contains myelinated axons coursing away from each cell body. 'Ischaemia' refers to oxygen starvation in the brain (e.g. from stroke). Cortical atrophy due to ischaemia is therefore a reduction in the grey-matter volume due to lack of oxygen, followed by axonal pruning.
What is a Sentence for atrophy?
She has a muscular atrophy.
