tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous

Descriptive reference to an increase in the size of a bodily organ, or part of an organ, resulting from fatty or fibrous tissue.

Relating to any agent influencing the growth or nutrition of the kidney or to the action of such an agent.

Sclerotylosis.

Wasting of tissues and organs with advancing age from decreased catabolic or anabolic processes, at times due to endocrine changes, decreased use, or ischemia.

State of mutual dependence, with reference to food supply, of organs or cells of a plant or an animal.

1. Atrophy of the hair-growing parts.
2. Atrophy of the hair bulbs, with brittleness, splitting, and the falling out of hair.

Atrophy is the wasting away, deterioration, or diminution resulting from disease, injury, or lack of use.

1. Impaired nutrition of hair, which can lead to baldness.
2. Defective nutrition of hair, often culminating in alopecia. May be acquired or congenital; the latter often with metabolic or other birth defects.

Congenital defect of copper metabolism manifested in short, sparse, poorly pigmented kinky hair.

This condition is associated with failure to thrive in life, physical and mental retardation, and progressive severe deterioration of the brain; apparently a defect of copper transport.

1. An abnormality of the hair shaft in which the fine, brittle hairs show alternating light and dark zones when viewed under a polarizing microscope.

The sulfur content of the hair is greatly reduced and mental retardation has frequently been a related feature.

2. Congenital fragile hair with multiple fractures resulting from low sulfur-containing amino acid, cysteine, content of the hair, mental impairment, and short stature.

Nutrition of the hair.

Trophallactic fluid is a glandular fluid given by larvae to adults after being fed.

The exchange of food substances among members of a colony of social insects; such as, ants, bees, and termites.

1. A reference to or involving nutrition, digestion, assimilation, and growth.
2. Relating to or dependent upon nutrition.

Any part of the central nervous system whose proper functioning is thought to be necessary for the nutrition, growth, or maintenance of a peripheral part of the body; such as, the parietal lobe for the development of the muscles of an extremity.

A trophic influence or condition.