(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.
Supplement
Definition:
(v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
(v. t.) That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
(v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180ยก; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
(v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(3) However, the presence of these two molecules was restored if testosterone was supplemented immediately after orchiectomy.
(4) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(5) A dietary supplementation is effective in preventing formation of DUs caused by cysteamine-HCl administration to rats.
(6) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
(7) Heparin prolonged by 15 s and 45 s the time required to demonstrate Factor V activation in CAP supplemented with Factor Xa and thrombin respectively.
(8) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
(9) During anaesthesia with 60-70 per cent N2O in O2 and 0.2 per cent isoflurane, a maintenance dose (MD) of fentanyl was administered using a continuous variable-rate IV fentanyl infusion, supplemented by intermittent 50 micrograms IV boluses.
(10) Supplemental heterologous bone was used in the first series of 51 cases, autologous bone in the second series of 67 cases, and no supplemental bone in the third series of 68 cases.
(11) Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receiving supplemental oxygen state that this treatment makes them less short of breath at rest.
(12) The onset of vitamin A deficiency had no effect on oviduct growth in these chicks; even though vitamin A-deficient chicks showed a severe decline in growth rate while controls (fed the same diet supplemented with retinyl palmitate) continued to grow, estrogen stimulated resulted in similar oviduct size.
(13) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
(14) The cardiorespiratory effects of trichloroethylene supplementation of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, with simultaneous use of halothane at induction as needed, were studied in outpatient oral surgery patients undergoing dental extractions under general anesthesia.
(15) To find out non-specific time related changes, vitamin supplemented and unsupplemented control groups of non-OC users were also examined.
(16) Potassium supplementation lowers blood pressure in hypertensive patients ingesting normal amounts of sodium.
(17) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
(18) After 40 days of adaptation to serum-free medium, these cells displayed growth, morphology, and expression of CD4 similar to serum-supplemented cultures.
(19) A low-protein, low-phosphorus diet supplemented with essential amino acids and keto analogues was given to 12 rats, starting from the 90th day after subtotal nephrectomy.
(20) Two of them are vitamin K2-less (strains 30 and 73) and are supplemented by menadion natrium bisulfit at concentrations ranging from 0.2 to 10 mug per ml.