Trophesy

Quick meaning: Trophesy is a noun meaning Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.

Meaning

Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.

Example Sentences

Katabolic tendencies, depending upon deficient nutrition (trophesy, physiological disintegration), determine predominant maleness in the progeny.

The results here presented may prove an important contribution to the available information about the pathogenesis of acute mountain disease; they also suggest some risk of corneal trophesy in certain ophthalmic conditions or when using particular kinds of contact lenses.

He points out that the regional sympathy which characterizes trophesies is well marked, and that, as regards baldness, it extends from two points, the forehead and the vertex, ending at a line which, "carried round the head, would touch the occipital ridge posteriorly, and the eyebrows anteriorly.

Word Forms

• trophesies

Synonyms for trophesy

Depending on context, synonyms include trophoneurosis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include malnourishment, hypoalimentation, malnutrition, dystrophy, underfeeding, anorexia.

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