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

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.

1. Any disease caused by nutritional deficiency.
2. A disorder of nutrition; for example, 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.

Photosynthetic, leaf-bearing.

The vegetative or nutritive portion of the cell.

Any of a category of cytoplasmic organelles found in plant cells. They include the chlorophasts, what are involved in photosynthesis, and other related bodies; such as, the chromoplasts, which are associated with food storage; also, plastid.

The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.