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

Providing nourishment for or favoring the formation of tissue.

Muscular hypertrophy or a condition of excessive muscular development.

A microorganism that requires living cells to supply the enzyme systems necessary for growth and reproduction.

1. Usually an abnormal enlargement of an organ or body part because of an increase in cell size rather than cell numbers.
2. General increase in bulk of a part or organ, not due to tumor formation.

Use of the term may be restricted to denote greater bulk through increase in size, but not in number, of the individual tissue element; such as, the enlargement of muscles as a result of exercise.

1. Incomplete growth; atrophy.
2. Progressive degeneration of an organ or tissue caused by loss of cells.
3. Wasting that is often the result of recent nutritional deficiencies.

Something capable of choosing its own food.

Loss of subcutaneous fat, which may be total, congenital, and associated with hepatomegaly, excessive bone growth, and insulin-resistant diabetes.

1. Any disturbance of fat metabolism.
2. A group of conditions due to defective metabolism of fat, resulting in the absence of subcutaneous fat, that may be congenital or acquired and partial or total.
3. Any of various disorders of fat metabolism; intestinal lipodystrophy, a rare disease of uncertain etiology, chiefly of middle-aged men, presenting with joint pains, steatorrhea, wasting, and lymph node enlargement.

An organism whose carbon needs are satisfied by carbon dioxide.

Having a stimulating action on the development and function of the corpus luteum.

Nourishment of the tissues by lymph in parts devoid of blood vessels.

An acidophilic cell of the adenohypophysis that produces prolactin.

Having a stimulating effect upon the development, growth, or function of the mammary glands.

Atrophy or wasting away of the breasts.

An organism that requires complex organic sources of carbon and nitrogen for growth.