trophic (trofik)

[ If the trophic series be abnormal, the kinetic series is apt to be abnormal. F. Warner , Physical Expre ion, p. 278. The ganglia upon the dorsal roots of the myelonal nerve trunks seem to preside in some way over the nutrition of those roots, and are therefore said to have a trophic action. Wilder and Gage, Anat. Tech., p. 371. Trophic center, a nerve-center that regulates nutrition. - Trophic nerve, a nerve which directly influences the nutrition of the ti ue to which it goes. trophi cal (trof'i-kal), a. [ Same as trophic . [Rare.] trophied (tro'fid), a . [ trophy + -ed2.] Adorned with trophies. Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. Pope , E ay on Man, iv. 303. Trophis (trō'fis), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1763), so named because its leaves and twigs are used in Jamaica as fodder; Eumoreæ. It is characterized by diœcio us flowers, the female tubular and disposed in few-flowered spikes, the male in loose or interrupted spikes. There are 5 or 6 species, all American, occurring in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Andes. They are trees or shrubs with alternate petioled leaves, which are finely and conspicuously feather veined and reticulated. The flowers are se ile or nearly so, their spikes solitary or twin in the axils, the fertile followed by a globose fleshy fruit closely united with the perianth-tube and crowned by its minute border. For T. American a, see ramoon. to be the inspired builder of the original temple of Apollo at Delphi, and part of the structure of the adytum of the historical temple was held to have survived from his work. After his death he was worshiped as a god, and had a famous oracle in a cavern near Lebadia in Bœotia.