trophesy

English

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Noun

trophesy (countable and uncountable, plural trophesies)

1. Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.

   Synonym: trophoneurosis

   • 1904, Edward Parker Davis, A Treatise on obstetrics for students and practitioners, page 68:

     Katabolic tendencies, depending upon deficient nutrition (trophesy, physiological disintegration), determine predominant maleness in the progeny.

   • 1982, William R. Corliss, The Unfathomed mind: a handbook of unusual mental phenomena:

     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.

   • 1987, Chronobiologia, page 194:

     The results here presented may prove an important contribution to the available information about the pathogenesis of acute mountain disease; they also suggest some risk of corneal trophesy in certain ophthalmic conditions or when using particular kinds of contact lenses.