muscle wasting
Flesh fades away
Muscle wasting is the loss of muscle mass and strength, typically from disease, malnutrition, or prolonged inactivity.
The medical term is atrophy.
Muscles waste when they go unused—a bedridden patient's legs waste, an immobilized arm shrinks in its cast.
Certain diseases cause progressive wasting: The cancer left him frail, his muscles wasted away.
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- physical therapyRehabilitative movement-based medical care
- weaknessDeficiency in force
- autophagyCellular self-degradation process
degeneration · muscular dystrophy · motor neuron disease · malnutrition · skin and bones · denervation · myopathy · lean body mass · inflammation · bedridden · bed rest · resistance training · fatigue · anabolic steroids · withering · vitamin D deficiency · hormonal imbalance · wheelchair
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- Aging Problemsdementia, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, arthritis, falls
- body disordersobesity, overweight, underweight, malnutrition, anorexia
- degenerationdegeneration, neurodegeneration, atrophy, deterioration, demyelination
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, vision loss, developmental disability, hearing impairment
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
muscle wastingmuscle growth
Increase in tissue size
muscle building · hypertrophy · muscle gain · anabolism · bulking
muscle wastingmuscularity
Bodily strength and definition
muscle tone · athletic build · physical fitness · able-bodiedness