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-tropism

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-tropy

 
a combining form occurring in abstract nouns that correspond to adjectives ending in -tropic or -tropous: neurotropy.
Also, -tropism.

Origin:
< Gk -tropia. See -trope, -y 3
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-tropism  
suff.  Tropism: phototropism.

[From Greek tropē, a turning; see -tropic.]
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Medical Dictionary

-tropism suff.
Tropism: stereotropism.

-tropy suff.
The state of turning in a specified way or from a specified stimulus: thixotropy.

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