(n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
(n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
(v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
(v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
(v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
(v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
(n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(3) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(5) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(6) Diet consumption decreased as the concentration of ethanol increased in the diet.
(7) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(8) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(9) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(10) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(12) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(13) In our experience, body weight, insulin requirements, glycemic control, and serum lipids are well managed by such diets for up to 10 years of follow-up.
(14) One week after azoxymethane injection, animals were transferred to their respective experimental diets containing piroxicam and DFMO.
(15) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
(16) When the two most toxic isolates (diets) were diluted, survival time increased but severe growth suppression was evident.
(17) 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.
(18) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(19) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(20) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.
Dispensable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being dispensed or administered.
(a.) Capable of being dispensed with.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
(4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
(8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
(9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
(10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
(11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
(12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
(14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
(15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
(16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
(17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
(18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
(19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
(20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.