dystrophies

Meaning of dystrophies

plural noun
  1. a disorder in which an organ or tissue of the body wastes away.
    myotonic dystrophy
    macular dystrophies damage the central portion of the retina

late 19th century: from modern Latin dystrophia, from Greek dus- ‘bad’ + -trophia ‘nourishment’.

Information about dystrophies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dystrophies is: dystrophy.
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Hyphenation of dystrophies

dys-tro-phies

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • dystrophies is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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