"trophesy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: trophesies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} trophesy (countable and uncountable, plural trophesies)
  1. Malnourishment due to a disorder of the nervous system. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: trophoneurosis
    Sense id: en-trophesy-en-noun-TbOWaECY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1987, Chronobiologia, page 194",
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