Taber's Medical Dictionary
-trophic, -trophous
[Gr. trophikos, pert. to nourishment, fr. trophē, food]
Suffixes meaning having the nutritional needs of (specified by the first element). This suffix is frequently confused with -tropic.
SEE: -tropic
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "-trophic, -trophous." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743689/all/_trophous.
-trophic, -trophous. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743689/all/_trophous. Accessed May 18, 2025.
-trophic, -trophous. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743689/all/_trophous
-trophic, -trophous [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/743689/all/_trophous.
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