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Instillation (medicine) and myoatrophy (medicine)


Instillation (medicine)


instillation


To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

Synonym: To infuse, impart, inspire, implant, inculcate, insinuate.

Origin: L. Instillatio, from stillare = to drop


myoatrophy (medicine)


myoatrophy -->
muscular atrophy
Derangement in size and number of muscle fibres occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.