trophesial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to regulation of nourishment by the nervous system.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From trophesy + -al.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more trophesial (comparative)
most trophesial (superlative)