(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.
Overindulgence
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike past clinical reports, parents here scored high in acceptance and low in overprotection and overindulgence.
(2) Yesterday many of us overindulged in chocolate, but Easter is not the only time we munch our way through mounds of cocoa-based treats.
(3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
(4) Parenting practices that may encourage tantrums include inconsistency, unreasonable expectations, excessive strictness, overprotectiveness and overindulgence.
(5) As the British public overindulged during the Christmas period, two Israeli ophthalmologists published a review showing that people who are clinically obese have an increased chance of eye disease.
(6) The parent-child interaction patterns were characterized as rejecting and both overprotective and overindulgent.
(7) Countertransference phenomena include being secretive, intrusive, shaming, overcontrolling, overindulgent, or overidentified.
(8) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
(9) The present study demonstrated that a history of ethanol overindulgence yielded elevated probe intakes for chlordiazepoxide, while a history of cocaine or water overindulgence did not.
(10) Or just assuage your guilt about overindulging on bad food, or not eating enough greens?
(11) An easy (and often overplayed) explanation is that the Irish, for so long a devoutly Catholic people, feel guilty for their overindulgence during the good years, when the Celtic tiger was roaring and they all borrowed and spent too much.
(12) Perhaps Shawcross's models liked to overindulge in Conor's best known dish, its Ulster Fry, and who could blame them?
(13) The conditions which induce the ethanol overindulgence can generate a variety of behavioral excesses which places alcoholism in a context of environmentally determined malfunctions that are subject to therapeutic change by altering situational parameters.
(14) Damage of the knee joint has increased during the last few years owing to overindulgence in sports.
(15) The man responsible for this dramatic and deeply unsettling change in Britain’s constitution was a fat, childish and overindulged English monarch called Henry VIII, who became obsessed by something we might call “control”.
(16) The overindulgence is elective in that ethanol is chosen in preference to certain other fluid-ingestive alternatives.
(17) Unfortunately, the problem often turns out to be more serious than the transient pangs emanating from overindulgence.
(18) Rejection, overprotectiveness and overindulgence are often found as educational attitudes in parents of handicapped children.
(19) In our patients the chronic overindulgence in alcohol led to an increased appearance of a pathological gastrooesophageal reflux.
(20) Hence, they were less vulnerable to a continuance of their ethanol overindulgence than the group with the remote history of having chosen 5% ethanol over the dilute glucose solution.