Path. [irreg. f. Gr. τροφή nourishment, with ending app. after dropsy, palsy.] ‘Defective nutrition due to disorder of the trophic nerves’ (Dorland, Med. Dict., 1900–13). Hence Trophesial a., pertaining to trophesy; in quot. 1899, pertaining to nutrition: TROPHIC.
1883. E. C. Mann, Psychol. Med., 349 (Cent. Dict.). Excessive thought, with mental anxiety,… is much more exhausting, and therefore more commonly followed by trophesies.
1895. Cent. Dict., Trophesial.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 408. A morbid cerebral condition impairing psychical and trophesial function. Ibid., 409. The trophesial function of the cortex.
