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Definition of Trophic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to nutrition. "A trophic level on the food chain"
Definition of Trophic
1. a. Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
Definition of Trophic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to nutrition ¹
2. Adjective. (ecology) Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trophic
1. pertaining to nutrition [adj] - See also: nutrition
Medical Definition of Trophic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trophic
Literary usage of Trophic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It has been suggested that trophic influences are mediated by ... Weir Mitchell
believed that trophic disturbances in the skin and its adnexa are due to ..."
2. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"trophic CONDITIONS. THE significance of abnormal variations in the nutritional
conditions of a part is at once apparent when it is recalled that the growth ..."
3. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"CHAPTER XVIII trophic NERVES NERVES exercise a trophic or nutritive influence
over the tissues and organs they supply; for when a nerve going to an organ is ..."
4. General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life by Max Verworn (1899)
"trophic stimuli do not stand in contrast with other stimuli; the term " trophic "
simply signifies a special peculiarity of the action, and very different ..."
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