| Kienbock's atrophy | Acute atrophy of bone in an extremity following inflammation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| kienbock disease | <radiology> Lunate avascular necrosis (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Kienbock, Robert | <person> Austrian roentgenologist, 1871-1953. See: Kienbock's atrophy, Kienbock's disease, Kienbock's dislocation, Kienbock's unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kienbock's disease | Osteolysis of the lunate bone following trauma to the wrist. Synonym: lunatomalacia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kienbock's dislocation | Dislocation of semilunar bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kienbock's unit | An obsolete unit of X-ray dosage equivalent to 1/10 the erythema dose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute reflex bone atrophy | Atrophy of bones, commonly of the carpal or tarsal bones, following a slight injury such as a sprain. See: causalgia, reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Synonym: acute reflex bone atrophy, posttraumatic osteoporosis, Sudeck's syndrome. Origin: L. English sweat (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute yellow atrophy of the liver | A lesion in which there is extensive and rapid death of parenchymal cells of the liver, sometimes with fatty degeneration of the size of the organ; the necrosis may result from fulminant viral infection or chemical poisoning; associated with jaundice. Synonym: acute parenchymatous hepatitis, Rokitansky's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alveolar atrophy | Diminution in size of the supportive tissues of the teeth due to lack of function, reduced blood supply, or unknown causes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arthritic atrophy | Atrophy of muscles rendered inactive by a chronically inflamed or fixed joint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophy | <pathology> A wasting away, a diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ or part. Origin: L., Gr. Atrophia (16 Dec 1997) |
| back-pressure renal atrophy | <radiology> Caliectasis without obstruction, due to repeated episodes of obstruction, gradual loss of renal pyramids (12 Dec 1998) |
| blue atrophy | Depressed blue atrophic scars due to injections in the skin of impure substances, as seen in narcotics addicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brown atrophy | Atrophy of the heart wall, especially in the elderly, in which the muscle is dark reddish brown and reduced in volume; the muscle fibres become pigmented especially about the nuclei, by lipochrome granules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Buchwald's atrophy | A progressive form of cutaneous atrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| macular atrophy | Atrophoderma in which the skin becomes bag like and wrinkled. Synonym: atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis, atrophoderma maculatum, macular atrophy, primary idiopathic macular atrophy, primary macular atrophy of skin. Origin: G. Anetos, relaxed, + derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |