(n.) The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
(n.) The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
(n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(3) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(4) Diet consumption decreased as the concentration of ethanol increased in the diet.
(5) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(6) However, self-efficacy (defined as confidence in being able to resist the urge to drink heavily) assessed at intake of treatment, was strongly associated with the level of consumption on drinking occasions at follow-up.
(7) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
(8) Analysis of the means of food consumption and energy sources by AH patients and subjects without AH revealed differences in food cholesterol consumption per kg bw.
(9) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(10) These findings imply that if bleeding occurs following revascularization, in addition to the use of replacement blood products, treatment should be directed at reducing the consumptive coagulopathy and inhibiting fibrinolysis.
(11) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(12) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
(13) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
(14) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(15) Clinical and inflammatory activity improved in both groups, but consistently more so in the auranofin group, in spite of the greater consumption of local steroids and NSAIDs in the placebo group.
(16) A sustained decrement in RMR accompanied weight loss and persisted for greater than or equal to 8 wk despite increased caloric consumption and body weight stabilization.
(17) It was also shown of morphological changes and enhanced glucose consumption in media by these macrophages.
(18) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
(19) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(20) The determining component of daily energy consumption is energy consumption during the working period the value of which depends on the character of working activity and duration of the working shift.
Expenditure
Definition:
(n.) The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
(n.) That which is expended or paid out; expense.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(3) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(4) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
(5) Thus, both energy intake and expenditure were manipulated to result in an energy deficit of 50 percent.
(6) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
(7) We present a comparison of the Canadian and American data on expenditures, identifying the sectors in which the experience of the two nations diverges most, and describing the processes of control.
(8) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.
(9) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(10) However, a variety of policy initiatives were introduced both to restructure National Health Service (NHS) expenditure, and to facilitate private provision of health services.
(11) Respiratory gas exchange and indirect calorimetry were used to obtain resting energy expenditure (REE) and net substrate oxidation rates.
(12) Hodge asked: "That's a lot of money, over £2bn [shortfall] being fed into the public expenditure figures – who is being held to account?"
(13) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
(14) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
(15) Average increases in resting metabolic expenditure for a group of patients following elective operation, skeletal trauma, skeletal trauma with head injury, blunt trauma, sepsis and burns were determined by indirect calorimetry and protein need by urinary nitrogen losses over extended time periods.
(16) Inhibition of facultative thermogenesis by beta-blockers such as propranolol, diminishes the daily energy expenditure and promotes weight gain and obesity.
(17) But there will be as much as George Osborne as Ed Balls or Miliband in today's budget delivered this afternoon in the Dail by two ministers: Fine Gael's Finance Minister Michael Noonon and Labour's Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin.
(18) If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labour.
(19) Simultaneously, energy expenditure and whole-body lipogenesis were measured by indirect calorimetry.
(20) Some £122bn was public expenditure and just under £28bn private spending, with NHS charges included in the private-spending total.