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adj. - Of or relating to an orienting response to food.

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  • Since we give these related effects a common denominator in their functional aspect, the term "trophotropic system" is appropriate.
  • Important, too, is the establishment that there is no evidence in the trophotropic zone of a central organization corresponding to particular organs.
  • Clearly, in the competition between ergotropic and trophotropic systems the former forfeits some of its influence on the organism as a whole in favour of an excess of...
  • We take a step forward, when we turn our attention to the observations from which it emerges that reciprocal mutual connections operate between the sympathetic-ergotropic and...
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