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

1. The process by which a body of water becomes rich in dissolved nutrients from fertilizers or sewage, thereby encouraging the growth and decomposition of oxygen-depleting plant life and resulting in harm to other organisms.
2. Having waters (lakes and/or ponds) rich in mineral and organic nutrients that promote a proliferation of plant life, especially algae, which reduces the dissolved oxygen content and often causes the extinction of other organisms.

1. In medicine, healthy or adequate nutrition or development; being well nourished.
2. With reference to lakes and ponds, a state of being over-rich in organic and mineral nutrients which promote plant life at the expense of animal life.
3. A process of becoming eutrophic, especially because of pollution.

1. A reference to fungi that grow on the outside of the roots.
2. Nourished or receiving nourishment from external parts.

A reference to a principle in the extracts of the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that antagonises the action of insulin and causes hyperglycemia/hyperglycaemia.

An endocrine cell of the adenohypophysis that affects certain cells of the ovary or testis.

Atrophy of one side of the body or of one half of an organ or part.

Hemiatrophy has been reported in association with a variety of neurologic conditions, including parkinsonism. Patients with the hemiparkinson-hemiatrophy syndrome (HP-HA) have asymmetric parkinsonism with limb atrophy on the more affected side.

Underdevelopment of one lateral half of the body.

Muscular or osseous hypertrophy of one side of the face or body.

Any disease or abnormal condition of the blood and hemopoietic tissues, exclusive of simple transitory changes.

The nutritive materials supplied to the embryos of placental mammals through the maternal bloodstream.

Pertaining to the mechanism by which a substance in or on blood cells, especially the erythrocytes, attracts phagocytic cells; the latter change direction and migrate toward the hemotropic cells.

Atrophy of the liver.

Organisms; such as, all animals, some bacteria, and certain plants, that depend, either directly or indirectly, on other ortganisms for food because of their inability to manufacture proteins and carbohydrates from inorganic sources.

1. Obtaining nourishment from exogenous organic material; a reference to organisms unable to synthesize organic compounds from inorganic substrates.
2. A reference to plants occurring in a wide range of habitats on a wide variety of soil types, and of protistans (algae, fungi, and protozoans) utilizing a wide variety of food materials.
3. The ability or requirement to synthesize all metabolites from organic compounds.

1. The part of the nutrition of the embryo derived from cellular sources other than blood.
2. The nutrients supplied to the mammalian embryo from the maternal tissues as distinct from that derived from the maternal blood and bloodstream, which is called hemotroph.