Nutrition
[njʊ'trɪʃ(ə)n] or [nu'trɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans).
(noun.) (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
Typed by Gus--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(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.
(n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
Typist: Perry
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nourishing.[2]. Food, NUTRIMENT.
Typed by Irwin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Alimentation, sustentation, feeding,
ANT:Exhaustion, starvation, inanition
Editor: Wilma
Examples
- What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Diagram showing the difference in the cost of three foods which give about the same amount of nutrition each. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was only toward the end of the 18th century that the vague and ancient notions that air, water, oil and salt formed the nutrition of plants, began to be modified. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Rowena