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Meaning of trophesy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system.

countable, uncountable

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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