α. 1600s allogotrophia, 1600s– alogotrophia.
β. 1600s– alogotrophy.
alogotrophyn.
/ˌaləˈɡɒtrəfi/, U.S. /ˌæləˈɡɑtrəfi/ Medicine. Now historical and rare.
Supposedly: excessive nutrition of a rachitic bone or other part of the body, resulting in its disproportionate growth; an instance of this. Also figurative.
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alogotrophy1651
1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets xiii. 109 The common caus almost of al these recited affects seems to be an uneven or disproportionate nourishment or Alogotrophy of the parts [L. ἀλογοτροϕία partium].
1675 G. Thomson Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically 45 I advise those parts should undergo most gentle Exercise, which are weakest;..to move rather the Arms and Hands when incident to a debility, lest the stronger by motion defraud the weaker, and so Alogotrophia or disproportion in the nourishment of parts follow.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) If the bones of the vertebræ of the back receive too much nutriment on one side..an incurvation necessarily ensues, which, as Charleton expresses it, is produced by an alogotrophia.
1891 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 176 Modern scholarship shows a like tendency to psychical alogotrophy or one-sided intellectual growth.
1918 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 11 120 They consider the disease [sc. rickets] due in part to ‘Alogotrophy’, or unequal nourishment of parts, and also to ‘Cachochymical humours’, which we might translate as intestinal bacterial putrefaction.
1927 Janus 31 356 Contrary to Boot, Glisson imputes rickets to an alogotrophia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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