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trophesial en · ADJ

Etymology

From trophesy + -al.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to regulation of nourishment by the nervous system.
   • Accordingly, we find as an immediate result of implication of the trophesial function of the cortex such prodroma as constipation, dyspepsia, amenorrhoea; not to speak of changes in the skin, hair and complexion, and general bodily weakness. 1900, Thomas Clifford Allbutt, A System of Medicine - Volume 8, page 409:
   • This sclerosis of the packing substance of the right hemisphere impairing its trophesial influence, resulted in arrestment of development of the opposite side of the body. 1969, Journal of Anatomy - Volume 7, page 265:
   • This, to his mind, “is indicative of impaired nourishment rather than of active morbid action—of interruption of trophesial function—which depends on the maintenance of the integrity of cell-connection. 1894, Sir John Batty Tuke, The Insanity of Over-exertion of the Brain:

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