词根：troph = to nourish

  来自拉丁语的troph 意to nourish。同义词根有来自拉丁语的nutri,al。

同源词：

1. atrophy（没有营养 a<an(=not,without) + troph(=nourishment)）
  n.萎缩；衰退
  v.（使）萎缩
  Quadriplegics often experience muscular atrophy after their paralysis. 四肢瘫痪者在以后肌肉往往也会萎缩。

2. dystrophy
  n.营养失调 *dys (=bad,badly)

3. hypertrophy
  n.（因营养过剩等而引起的）[生]肥大 *hyper (=excessive)

词根词缀：kine-, kin-, kino-, kinesio-, kinesi-, kineto-, kinet-, -kinesia, -kinesis, -kinetic, -kinesias, -kineses, -kinetical, -kinetically

【来源及含义】Greek: move, set in motion; muscular activity

【相关词根词缀】Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; mobil-; mot-, mov-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.

【同源单词】acinesia, acrokinesia, adiadochocinesia, adiadochokinesia, adiadochokinesis, adipokinesis

词根词缀：musculo-, muscul-

【来源及含义】Latin: muscle; literally, "little mouse"

【同源单词】algiomuscular, cervicomuscular, idiomuscular, intramuscular, muscle, muscology

词根词缀：uretero-, ureter-

【来源及含义】Greek: urinary canal

【相关描述】Either of two tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder; the walls of each ureter have three layers—a fibrous outer layer, a muscular middle layer, and an inner memberane and are supplied by blood vessels and nerves.

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.

【同源单词】colpoureterocystotomy, colpoureterotom, cystoureterographic, electroureterography, pyeloureteroplasty, ureter

词根词缀：utero-, uter-

【来源及含义】Latin: womb; hollow, muscular organ of the female reproductive system in which the fertilized ovum, or egg, and the fetus, unborn baby, is nourished and grows until birth

【同源单词】ureterouterine, uteralgia, utercystostomy, uterectomy, utergenic, uteri