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Threpsology :: Threpsology (n.) The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.

Eutrophy :: Eutrophy (n.) Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.

Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house..

Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth..

Nutritial :: Nutritial (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious..

Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

Nutritional :: Nutritional (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes..

Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions..

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs..

Organotrophic :: Organotrophic (a.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts..

Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.

Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

Disassimilation :: Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism..

Alimentary :: Alimentary (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances..

Protoplasm :: Protoplasm (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc..

Micropyle :: Micropyle (n.) An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted..

Nutritive :: Nutritive (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries..

Nutriture :: Nutriture (n.) Nutrition; nourishment.

Malnutrition :: Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

Concoction :: Concoction (n.) A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.

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