Medical term:
heterotrophies
heterotroph
[het´er-o-trōf″]a heterotrophic organism.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
het·er·o·troph
(het'ĕr-ō-trof, -trōf),A microorganism that obtains its carbon, as well as its energy, from organic compounds.
See also: autotroph.
See also: autotroph.
[hetero- + G. trophē, nourishment]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
heterotroph
(hĕt′ər-ə-trŏf′, -trōf′)n.
An organism that is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition because it cannot synthesize its own food.
het′er·o·troph′ic adj.
het′er·o·troph′i·cal·ly adv.
het′er·ot′ro·phy (-ə-rŏt′rə-fē) n.
The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
het·er·o·troph
(het'ĕr-ō-trōf)A microorganism that obtains its carbon, as well as its energy, from organic compounds.
See also: autotroph
See also: autotroph
[hetero- + G. trophē, nourishment]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
heterotroph
an organism dependent on obtaining organic food from the environment because it is unable to synthesize organic material. All animals, fungi, many bacteria, plants without chloroplasts and a few flowering plants (such as insectivorous plants) are heterotrophs, and they obtain almost all their organic material, either directly or indirectly, from the activity of AUTOTROPHS. See HOLOZOIC, SAPROPHYTE, PARASITE.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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