What's the difference between inanition and starvation?
Inanition
Definition:
(n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
(2) Inanition due to a functional rather than anatomic stenosis and dysmotility was observed in the long-term survivors.
(3) Inanition associated with severe FD may impair thiamin status.
(4) Groups of ten 8-day-old poults were fed rations containing T-2 at 10 ppm, 2ppm, or 0 ppm (controls) for a period of 4 weeks; a 4th group (inanition control) was fed control rations equal to the amount consumed by the group fed rations containing T-2 at 10 ppm during the previous 24 hours.
(5) The most likely cause of the bone disorder is calcium deficiency, but inanition, inactivity and alcohol abuse may have contributed.
(6) Aflatoxicosis and inanition lowered the activity of renal arginase by 58 and 37%, respectively.
(7) All suffered from severe inanition and required oxygen therapy.
(8) In one form there is extensive intestinal involvement leading to diarrhea, inanition, and increased susceptibility to infection.
(9) This reduction in activity was due primarily to the direct effect of the diminished supply of riboflavin, and occurred to only a small extent as a result of inanition, demonstrated by a moderate reduction in activity in the more severely food-restricted of the two pair-fed groups.
(10) A 36 per cent response rate was obtained in fifty-eight nutritionally depleted patients with cancer who would otherwise have been denied adequate antitumor therapy because of the fear of complications from malnutrition and inanition.
(11) Nitrogen content of embryos increases at a decreasing rate after 41 and 45 days inanition; placental nitrogen is markedly reduced at those times.
(12) Effects of induced starvation on the morphology of the oocytic nucleus in Cyprinus carpio have been studied to assess the nature of structural aberrations caused and the adaptations induced in the oocytes during the period of stress on account of inanition.
(13) The commonest mechanisms producing hypoglycemia included liver disease with impaired carbohydrate metabolism, endogenous or exogenous drug or hormonal effect, and inanition from decreased intake of food.
(14) Clinical evaluation indicated that respiratory tract disease, bacterial and parasitic infections, and inanition may have contributed to the death of these otters.
(15) Granulation tissue from healing tendonectomy wounds in guinea pigs was analysed and the effects of inanition and ascorbic acid deficiency on this tissue were investigated.
(16) A high rate of lipofuscin formation is indicated by the occurrence of brown atrophy of the heart in relatively young persons who died of conditions that were associated with inanition.
(17) Modest inanition failed to alter pituitary-testicular function in house mice; neither spermatogenesis nor plasma concentrations of luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone were modified.
(18) Radiation therapy may induce anorexia with resultant weight loss and inanition that can limit the dose of radiation therapy administered.
(19) There was no significant (P less than or equal to 0.05) decrease in thymus gland size in poults given 2 ppm or in the inanition controls.
(20) Septicemias, especially those due to gram-negative pathogens, frequently occur in leukemias, malignant lymphomas and other malignant or metabolic diseases leading to inanition.
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.