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Webster 1913 Edition
Nutrition
1.
(Physiol.)
In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which a living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
☞ In this wide sense it comprehends digestion, absorption, circulation, assimilation, etc., in fact all of the steps by which the nutritive matter of the food is fitted for incorporation with the different tissues, and the changes which it undergoes after its assimilation, prior to its excretion. See
Metabolism
. 2.
(Physiol.)
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.
3.
That which nourishes; nutriment.
Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot,
To draw
To draw
nutrition
, propagate, and rot. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nutrition
NUTRI'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables.2.
That which nourishes; nutriment.Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
There is no nutrition in ardent spirits.
Definition 2024
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See also: Nutrition
English
Noun
nutrition (usually uncountable, plural nutritions)
- (biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
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