Definition of nutrition

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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..

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Eutrophy :: Eutrophy (n.) Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
Sap :: Sap (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition..
Threpsology :: Threpsology (n.) The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
Malnutrition :: Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Nutriture :: Nutriture (n.) Nutrition; nourishment.
Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.
Nutritial :: Nutritial (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious..
Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
Organotrophic :: Organotrophic (a.) Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts..
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..
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..
Denutrition :: Denutrition (n.) The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
Alimentary :: Alimentary (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances..
Concoction :: Concoction (n.) A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion.
Micropyle :: Micropyle (n.) An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted..
Nourishment :: Nourishment (n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition..
Trophic :: Trophic (a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition..
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..
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..
Vegetative :: Vegetative (a.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal..
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