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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..

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..

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

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)..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Nourishment :: Nourishment (n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition..

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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