trophesy
trophesy noun: malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.
Noun
trophesy (countable and uncountable, plural trophesies)
- Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.
- Katabolic tendencies, depending upon deficient nutrition (trophesy, physiological disintegration), determine predominant maleness in the progeny.1904, Edward Parker Davis, A Treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners, page 68
- 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.1982, William R. Corliss, The Unfathomed mind: a handbook of unusual mental phenomena
- Synonyms:
- trophoneurosis
Synonyms of trophesy
Forms of trophesy
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Words formed from trophesy
Questions about trophesy
- What does trophesy mean?
- Trophesy means malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.
- What part of speech is trophesy?
- Trophesy is a noun.
- What is the plural of trophesy?
- The plural of trophesy is trophesies.
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