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nouna source of materials to nourish the body
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noun(physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenancetype of:
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nounthe scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)type of:
Definition that contains nutrition
- co a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
- frozen (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
- malnutrition a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
- yolk nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
- calorie a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
- cobalt a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
- nutritional of or relating to or providing nutrition
- nutritionist a specialist in the study of nutrition
- pica an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently
- exacting having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures