(n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
(n.) Any strong eager desire.
(n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
(n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
(v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(2) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
(3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(4) What I didn't know was how much hunger there was in the audience to see themselves on television.
(5) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
(6) Experiments in which this method has been applied to the measurement of hunger and thirst in doves are outlined, and the results are discussed in terms of their implications for motivation theory in general.
(7) This suggests that brain 5-HT may influence primarily the induction of satiety rather than the suppression of hunger.
(8) In the experiments the animals' reactions to various conditions of temperature, air O2 and CO2 content, fatigue and hunger, were tested.
(9) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
(10) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
(11) It is concluded that at the first central synapse of the taste system of the primate, neural responsiveness is not influenced by the normal transition from hunger to satiety.
(12) An attempt is made to explain this finding, together with their previously-demonstrated enhanced hunger drive, purely in terms of gross anatomical and physiological differences.
(13) After the lesion in the VTA the reaction of rats became independent of the level of hunger--the number of their crossings was similar at different levels of hunger.
(14) Although high-intensity sweeteners are widely used to decrease the energy density of foods, little is known about how this affects hunger and food intake.
(15) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(16) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(17) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
(18) 72-hour hunger test did not precipitate any spontaneous hypoglycaemia.
(19) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
(20) French journalists from Paris Match magazine and Le Parisien spoke to Trierweiler, 48, during her two-day visit to India at the weekend for the humanitarian organisation Action Contre La Faim (Action against Hunger).
Starvation
Definition:
(n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
Example Sentences:
(1) Starvation increased the rate of alpha-decarboxylation of leucine.
(2) After 8 days of starvation, there is a 25% decrease in the muscle protein, but after 8 days of protein deprivation, there is no significant change in the muscle mass.
(3) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(4) In addition, insulin tolerance tests were performed on 8 lean and 8 obese subjects before and after starvation.
(5) This tends to protect the myocyte in starvation but jeopardizes the older cell.
(6) The genes have been designated dci (for decoyinine-inducible) and gsi (for glucose-starvation-inducible).
(7) Conversely, serum starvation decreased TIP levels within 1 hr.
(8) The preservation of diamine oxidase activity during starvation implies a need for the enzyme not related to mucosal proliferation or digestion.
(9) For most of those proteins whose rate of synthesis increases in vivo following starvation there is a parallel increase in the cellular level of the functional mRNAs encoding them.
(10) The enhancement of long-chain fatty acid oxidation and ketogenesis in the perfused rat liver, whether induced acutely by treatment of fed animals with anti-insulin serum or glucagon, or over the longer term by starvation or the induction of alloxan diabetes, was found to ba accompanied by a proportional elevation in the tissue carnitine content.
(11) Urinary output paradoxically increased during the first day following starvation, but fell dramatically thereafter.
(12) Changes in the total bilirubin similar to those in cows with ketosis were established also in cows subjected to starvation, substantiated by the adequate rise of the free and the bound fraction.
(13) Synchronized cells (doubly arrested by serum starvation and aphidicolin) displayed a biphasic distribution of the number of cruciforms over the first 6 h after release from synchrony with maxima at 0 and 4 h after release.
(14) Expression of the yeast his3 and other amino acid biosynthetic genes is induced during conditions of amino acid starvation.
(15) Experiments with this organism showed that in a variety of different incubation conditions, which included normal growth, amino acid starvation, inhibition by chloramphenicol or streptomycin, or thymine deprivation, a close correlation was seen between the intracellular accumulation of unconjugated spermidine and RNA.
(16) These enzymes in the two main subcellular loci are distinct since they exhibit different electrophoretic mobilities, physicochemical properties, substrate specificities and responses to starvation and dietary manipulation.
(17) The activities of hexokinase and 6-phosphofructokinase were decreased whereas that of phosphorylase increased in response to starvation.
(18) Adult male rats were subjected to four cycles of mild starvation (2 wk) and refeeding (1 wk) and were compared with a fed group.
(19) Guinea pig neonates are therefore able to resist starvation-induced decreases in tissue glutathione levels seen in adult rodents.
(20) Previously we showed that starvation of HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells for a single essential amino acid induced irreversible differentiation into more mature monocyte-like cells.