Taber's Medical Dictionary
-tropic
[Gr. tropikos, pert. to a turn, fr. tropos, turn]
Suffix meaning turned to, attracted to. This suffix is frequently confused with -trophic.
SEE: -trophic
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "-tropic." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729430/all/_tropic.
-tropic. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729430/all/_tropic. Accessed May 18, 2025.
-tropic. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729430/all/_tropic
-tropic [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 May 18]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/729430/all/_tropic.
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