Definition of Trophesy

1. a state of deranged nutrition [n TROPHESIES]

Medical Definition of Trophesy

1. The results of any disorder of the trophic nerves. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trophesy

tropein
tropeine
tropeines
tropentane
tropeolin
tropeolins
tropes
troph-
trophaeal
trophaeall
trophallaxes
trophallaxis
tropheal
trophectoderm
trophesic
trophesy (current term)
trophi
trophic
trophic cascade
trophic cascades
trophic changes
trophic gangrene
trophic hormone
trophic hormones
trophic level
trophic levels
trophic nucleus
trophic ulcer
trophic web
trophically

Literary usage of Trophesy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Pocket medical dictionary: Giving the Pronunciation and Definition of the ...by George Milbry Gould by George Milbry Gould (1920)
"An alkaloid from a narrow- leaved variety of Erythroxylon coca; it is a local anesthetic. Trophe'sial, Trophe'sic, trophesy, trof'-ts-t. ..."

2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"Thus, the tendency to leprosy (which is a trophesy) will lie dormant in Europeans who have been resident amongst a leprous population, and be manifested ..."

3. A Treatise on Obstetrics: For Students and Practitioners by Edward Parker Davis (1904)
"... depending upon deficient nutrition (trophesy, physiological disintegration), determine predominant maleness in the progeny. The period of development at ..."

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