~ TROPHIN      implies "TO NURTURE or FEED"
~ ~TROPHIN     prefix  as in GONADOTROPHIN
~ TROPHOBLAST  gr BLASTOS = TISSUE
               biol> med> EXTRAEMBRYONIC TISSUE
     IT ATTACHES THE OVUM TO THE UTERINE WALL
     skt  TRAPATE   ASHAMED as TURNS AWAY
     ukr  TRIPATY   TO SHAKE
     med> TROPISM   TURNING
     perhaps TURPITUDE is from gr TREPEIN
     note    TRIPANOSOMA implying  TWISTED
     hx> Edgar DEGAS [#] visited NEW ORLEANS
         during December 1872 and the
     temperature reached 80 degrees
          lit+ in a letter he noted
           " ONE DOES NOTHING HERE
             IT LIES WITH THE CLIMATE ..."
~ TROPIN   gr TROPOS = A TURNING
~ ~TROPIN  biol> med> implies AFFINITY FOR
           note       GONADOTROPIN
  note contrast with  GONATOTROPHIN  see> TROPHIN

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