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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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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