English

hemiatrophy

From hemi- + atrophy.

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi ‘half’

English hemi-

Proto-Hellenic *tʰrépʰō

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Ancient Greek τροφή ‘that which provides or procures sustenance’

Ancient Greek ἀτροφία ‘a wasting away’

Latin atrophia

French atrophie

Today it means

noun atrophy that affects only one half of the body

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hemiatrophy