April 18, 2017,Expect bus delays for Woodbridge High School due to a traffic accident on Old Bridge Road. No reports of students or staff involved.
(Ätâ²rÉ-fÄ) n. pl. atÂ·roÂ·phies. 1. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis. 2. A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy. v. atÂ·roÂ·phied, atÂ·roÂ·phyÂ·ing, atÂ·roÂ·phies.
Optic atrophy is the final common morphologic endpoint of any disease process that causes axon degeneration in the retinogeniculate pathway. Clinically, optic atrophy manifests as changes in the color and the structure of the optic disc (cupping) associated with variable degrees of visual dysfunction. The term atrophy is actually a misnomer, since, in its strict histologic definition, means involution of a structure due to prolonged disuse.