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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..

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

Absorption :: Absorption (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs..

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

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..

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..

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..

Cachexy :: Cachexy (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle)..

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

Innutrition :: Innutrition (n.) Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.

Sap :: Sap (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition..

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..

Trophic :: Trophic (a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition..

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..

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..

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

Excito-nutrient :: Excito-nutrient (a) Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

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