| atrophic rhinitis of swine | A disease manifested by atrophy, shrinkage, and often almost complete disappearance of the turbinate bones, accompanied by distortion of the facial bones, sneezing, and stunting of the growth of young animals; caused principally by the bacterium Bordetella bronchiseptica. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| atrophic thrombosis | Thrombosis due to feebleness of the circulation, as in marasmus. Synonym: marantic thrombosis, marasmic thrombosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophic vaginitis | <gynaecology> Inflammation of the vaginal mucosa secondary to thinning and decreased lubrication of the vaginal walls. This condition is typically caused by a decrease in oestrogen, as occurs after menopause. Common symptoms include vaginal soreness, vaginal itching, pain with intercourse and possible bleeding after intercourse. Treatment includes topical oestrogen containing creams and/or the use of oral oestrogens. (27 Sep 1997) |
| atrophie blanche | Small smooth ivory-white areas with hyperpigmented borders and telangiectasis, developing into atrophic stellate scars; seen especially on the legs and ankles of middle-aged women, and associated with livedo reticularis and dermal hyalinizing vasculitis. Origin: Fr. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophied | Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| atrophoderma | Atrophy of the skin that may occur either in discrete localised areas or in widespread areas. See: anetoderma. Synonym: atrophia cutis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma albidum | Stocking-like type of atrophy affecting the extremities, probably congenital; first noted in early childhood on the lower limbs as a symmetric thinning that renders the parts sensitive. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma biotripticum | An obsolete term for senile cutaneous atrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma diffusum | Diffuse idiopathic cutaneous atrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma maculatum | 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) |
| atrophoderma neuriticum | Shiny atrophy of the skin, usually of the hands, following nerve injury. Synonym: atrophoderma neuriticum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma of Pasini and Pierini | A form of slate-coloured atrophy of the skin occurring in discrete, 2-cm or larger lesions, either singly or multiply, and occasionally confluent, increasing in number and size over a period of years and then remaining constant; thought by some to be of two types: one preceded by morphea, and the other appearing with no preceding identifiable pathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma reticulatum symmetricum faciei | A rarely used term for folliculitis ulerythematosa reticulata. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma striatum | Bands of thin wrinkled skin, initially red but becoming purple and white, which occur commonly on the abdomen, buttocks, and thighs at puberty and/or during and following pregnancy, and result from atrophy of the dermis and overextension of the skin; also associated with ascites and Cushing's syndrome. Synonym: atrophoderma striatum, lineae albicantes, lineae atrophicae, linear atrophy, stretch marks, stria, striae atrophicae, striate atrophy of skin, traction atrophy, vergeture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrophoderma vermiculatum | Erythematous "ice-pick" or pitted scars on the cheeks; a scarring type of folliculitis, associated with keratosis pilaris and commonly inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. Synonym: atrophoderma vermiculatum. (05 Mar 2000) |