18:34 Sep 14, 2009 

Thank you all - very helpful especially from Maria on the trophic fracture.

14:33 Sep 14, 2009 

Dylan, you might also find "trophic fracture" - one due to nutritional (trophic) disturbance, a fracture resulting from the weakening of bone, caused by nutritional disturbances
"trophic nerve" - one concerned with regulation of nutrition
"trophic" - pertaining to a nutritive effect on a quality of cellular activity http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com

? why nerve fibres- thanks to n. f. and signals carried by n.f.

More http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nerve_injury "Role of Neurotrophic Factors"

also for more info denervation (atrofia z denervace)
vs. innervation- the supply of nervous energy or of nerve stimulus sent to a part of... and etc.;

07:17 Sep 14, 2009 

("Trophic ulcer", I find, is an ulcer due to imperfect nutrition of the part). Meanwhile, I've looked up trofika in Slovnik cizích slov, and I find the definition that Danuska has given - but, like Martin, I don't see why it should be narrowed down to nerve fibres.

00:12 Sep 14, 2009 

trofika=trophic from Gk. trofé=trophé=výživa=nourishment or to nourish

23:05 Sep 13, 2009 

the word refers to nourishment or nutrition. There's nothing in the word itself that indicates anything to do with nerves. I don't know where that Czech definition of the word comes from.

18:10 Sep 13, 2009 

In a German-English medical dictionary, I find: Trophik - trophic status (but perhaps the word is used a bit differently in German).

Trophic(s) etc. - words like this seem to come up mainly in the field of ecology. I'm not sure about their use in medicine!