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

1. The growing, active part of the trophoblast in the placental region.
2. The trophectoderm, or trophoblast, together with the vascular mesodermal layer underlying it.

Cutaneous trophic changes due to neural involvement.

1. The dynamics of nutrition or metabolism.
2. The branch of medical science dealing with the forces governing nutrition.

The determination of an insect's development by its feeding habits.

1. The study of the process by which animals and plants assimilate and utilize exogenous substances for synthesis of new tissue and production of energy.
2. The study of the dietary requirements of human beings and other animals in a variety of normal and pathologic conditions.

1. A trophic disorder (a functional disease of a part due to failure of nutrition from defective nerve action in the parts involved) of a part or region resulting from disease or injury to nerves enervating the area.
2. A trophic disorder, such as atrophy, hypertrophy, or a skin eruption, occurring as a consequence of disease or injury of the nerves of the part.

Of, relating to, constituting, or affected by a trophoneurosis.

Abnormalities of the skin, hair, nails, subcutaneous tissues and bone, caused by peripheral nerve lesions.

1. Any disease or disorder due to nutritional causes.
2. Any disease that is related to nutritional deficiencies.

The nucleus that is concerned withe the nutrition of a unicellular organism and not with its reproduction.

A disease caused by nutritional deficiency: When Grace was examined by Dr. Tall, he asked about her eating habits because she had a disorder of nutritional processes termed trophopathy, which could possibly be due to a vitamin deficiency.

1. Bringing nourishment, any one of the wandering amboid nutritive cells in a sponge which give rise to gemmules or embryos.
2. Having the function of supplying provisions or nutritional elements.