What's the difference between aliment and food?

Aliment


Definition:

  • (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
  • (n.) An allowance for maintenance.
  • (v. t.) To nourish; to support.
  • (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No differences in intestinal microsomal cytochrome P-450 content or meperidine demethylase activity were seen among the various alimentation groups.
  • (2) Hospitalisation time was short and satisfactory alimentation was achieved.
  • (3) Nutritional restoration using enteral or intravenous alimentation requires a delay of 10 to 14 days and is frequently not practical.
  • (4) Within 2 weeks of starting intravenous alimentation, it would appear highly desirable to be able to start at least small enteral feedings to interrupt the physiology of fasting.
  • (5) This is a report of the short- and long-term complications in a premature infant with tracheoesophageal fistula, including those related to central venous alimentation, seizures, chylothorax, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, dental erosions, gastroesophageal reflux, pulmonary problems, and gall stones.
  • (6) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
  • (7) The dermatitis disappeared slowly with oral alimentation in 2 cases, and in a few days in the third one, with oral zinc sulfate.
  • (8) Following administration of continuous enteral alimentation, intragastric pH fell, and ranitidine therapy only partially blocked this increase in gastric acidity induced by continuous enteral alimentation.
  • (9) With Vivasorb, the surgical patient's full alimentation can be maintained up to a few hours before the operation.
  • (10) It is pointed out that the optimal amounts of some of the components used are still under investigation, that there seems to be no imperative reason not to use glucose as the sole carbohydrate in this age group and that most of the possible long-term sequelae and complications of total long-term parenteral alimentation will have to be looked for by prospective studies of the children treated.
  • (11) Intensive protein and calorie alimentation are provided, and 0.5% aqueous AgNO3 dressings are used.
  • (12) Stomatitis was universal but rarely prevented oral alimentation or delayed therapy.
  • (13) With lipid emulsion, there was an increased fraction of saturated lecithins (mainly DPPC) both in lung tissue and lavage fluid, similar to former studies with hypocaloric alimentation.
  • (14) Needle catheter jejunostomy allows early alimentary tract utilization following operations, while percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy and jejunostomy provide long-term solutions to the provision of enteral alimentation.
  • (15) Weights of the heart, lungs, carcass and visceral fat were not affected by level of alimentation.
  • (16) Excluded were those who were malnourished in whom preoperative alimentation corrected the anergy.
  • (17) These patients have demonstrated consistent weight gain and have been spared the complications associated with prolonged parenteral alimentation.
  • (18) In particular, the antegrade approach appears to be an acceptable solution for enteric alimentation.
  • (19) Thirty percent of the articles referred to experimental nutrition and toxicology of alimentation.
  • (20) Reaction of immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgM) during a four week period under condition with a special parenteral and peroral alimentation was observed in three groups of patients (rectum neoplasm, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease) during a period of two weeks all patients received 150 g aminoacids and 510 g carbohydrates by central venous catheter.

Food


Definition:

  • (n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
  • (n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
  • (v. t.) To supply with food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (6) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (7) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
  • (9) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
  • (11) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
  • (12) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
  • (13) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
  • (14) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
  • (15) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
  • (16) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
  • (17) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (18) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
  • (19) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
  • (20) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.