(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.
Nourish
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
(v. t.) To support; to maintain.
(v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
(v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
(v. i.) To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
(v. i.) To gain nourishment.
(n.) A nurse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
(4) The rate of Cryptosporidium detection was similar among malnourished and well-nourished patients, as determined by weight-for-height percentiles.
(5) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(6) The findings suggested that the fetuses of the poorly nourished mothers (mean gain weight during pregnancy was only 6 kg.
(7) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
(8) Both malnourished cancer and non-cancer patients had lower values than well-nourished (p less than 0.05).
(9) During period B, 8 well-nourished patients and 10 malnourished cancer patients were used as control groups.
(10) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
(11) This study was designed to compare morphometric relationships between myelin lamellae and axons in undernourished and well nourished developing rats, and in rats nutritionally rehabilitated for two weeks.
(12) Adrenaline at 0.005 microgram kg-1 min-1 increased plasma FFA levels by 19% (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing patients while no significant alteration was observed in well-nourished patients.
(13) The well-nourished old had outcomes that did not differ from younger patients.
(14) The present study assessed development of malnourished and adequately nourished children in hospital and found that mean DQS of each group rose to a similar extent during recovery from illness.
(15) Plasma suppressive activity (PSA) was low in normal subjects and well nourished patients with benign disease and was associated entirely with alpha-2-macroglobulin (a2M).
(16) The concentration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and plasma cells was about half that seen in well-nourished children with severe nongastrointestinal infections.
(17) These infants may be at greater risk for nosocomial infection than normally nourished hosts.
(18) Developing rats were either malnourished or adequately nourished during the prenatal period by feeding their dams diets of 6% (low) or 25% (adequate) casein content 5 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy.
(19) Microvillus surface area per cell appears dependent on the number of microvilli per cell, which equals the cell flat surface times the microvillus numerical density (number of microvilli per square micrometer) in well-nourished rats.
(20) It is concluded that most of these findings can be attributed to differences in the quantity and nature of the nitrogen supplied in the basal diets and that the sheep nourished by infusion would be a suitable model for the study of factors involved in the control of urea recycling.