(n.) Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The height-for-age index revealed the following results: eutrophy, 65.7% and PCM 34.2%.
(2) The weight-for-age index revealed the following results: eutrophy, 46.9%; PCM I, 42.8%; PCM II, 9.9%; PCM III, 1.1%.
(3) Criteria for "normality" were eutrophy (length, weight, head circumference) and absence of obvious malformation, infection or other disease.
(4) The weight-for-height index revealed the following results: eutrophy, 79.0%; PCM I, 15.9%; PCM II, 3.4%; PCM III, 1.5%.
(5) According to the Seoane-Latham criteria the authors found the following results: eutrophy, 43.1%; balanced chronic malnutrition, 19.0%; acute malnutrition, 24.6%; evolutive chronic malnutrition, 9.2%; and chronic malnutrition in recovery 4.0%.
Nutrient
Definition:
(a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
(n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(2) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(3) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(4) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(5) Although it is known that the sphincter of Oddi exhibits a myoelectric response to intraluminal nutrients, the effect of specific dietary components has not been well characterized.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) Therefore these suggested methods of choice may not in every instance be the most accurate of all indicators of nutritional status for a particular nutrient.
(9) The intake of most nutrients was significantly depressed by approximately 10% during febrile illnesses.
(10) Microbial fermentation and nutrient degradation in the rumen were reduced by saponins.
(11) If begun before the animal becomes nutrient depleted, enteral feeding may better support the animal and avoid serious complications.
(12) Differences in the nutrient data bases were primarily due to the timing of data base updates, as well as to the differential use of industry, private, and government food analysis sources, procedural differences in data base updating, and random data entry error.
(13) The elastic properties of preserved human aortic homografts after different storage times in antibiotic-nutrient medium solution have been measured.
(14) The inoculum level of infected spores in nutrient broth-yeast extract-glucose medium affected the transducing efficiency of SP-10 in lysates of these cultures.
(15) The results of these trials suggest that increasing level of dietary NaHCO3 greatly increases the proportion of time ruminal pH is above critical levels for ruminal protein and dry matter digestion, but does not affect total tract nutrient digestion when 50% concentrate diets are fed.
(16) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(17) Seventy-six students and staff at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology weighed their food for 1 week and the records were used to determine the frequency of consumption of foods and portion sizes, as well as nutrient intakes.
(18) A shortened nutrient data base can be a valid tool for estimating intakes of populations.
(19) Despite these diffuse nutrient abnormalities, only zinc and vitamin E concentrations correlated significantly with any index of visual function.
(20) Histologic examination of different levels of the nutrient arteries revealed many intraosseous pathologic vascular changes in apposition to the ischemic episode of the femoral head.