Definitions for trophic

trophic troph·ic

Spelling: [trof-ik, troh-fik]
IPA: /ˈtrɒf ɪk, ˈtroʊ fɪk/

Trophic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in trophic (chioprt).

Definitions for trophic

adjective

  1. of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.

Origin of trophic

First recorded in 1870-75, trophic is from the Greek word trophikós pertaining to food. See tropho-, -ic

Examples for trophic

Then at a somewhat higher level, self-differentiation, and the trophic reaction to functional stimuli.

They are unaccompanied by any alteration in sensation, in the reflexes, or in the trophic functions.

Forms in which schizogonic reproduction is of general occurrence during the extra-cellular, trophic phase.

Other trophic centres, governing nerve tracts in the spinal cord itself, are in the various regions of the brain.

There is also a trophic differentiation, the fibres undertaking special functions of nutrition (the conduction of the sap).

In the higher animals and in primitive man, according to them, all trophic actions entered consciousness and were regulated by it.

Bed-sores and other trophic changes are common, and there is the usual risk of complications in relation to the urinary tract.

Certain cells of the anterior part of the spinal cord, for example, are the trophic centres of the spinal motor nerves.

In this manner they explain burns through suggestion, stigmata, trophic changes of a miraculous appearance, etc.

A nerve also exerts a trophic influence on the tissues in which it is distributed.

Word Value for trophic
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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