What's the difference between nourishment and sustenance?

Nourishment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.
  • (n.) That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
  • (2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
  • (3) Forty-one rats were allocated to one of 3 groups: group I (n = 13) were normally nourished rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, group II (n = 16) were semistarved rats which underwent partial hepatectomy, and group III (n = 12) were normally nourished rats which underwent sham operations.
  • (4) The rate of Cryptosporidium detection was similar among malnourished and well-nourished patients, as determined by weight-for-height percentiles.
  • (5) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
  • (6) The findings suggested that the fetuses of the poorly nourished mothers (mean gain weight during pregnancy was only 6 kg.
  • (7) Hydrogen breath tests were performed in Gabon (Central Africa) after a loading dose of lactose in 67 well-nourished African children (50 with intestinal parasites and 17 unparasitized) and in 18 unparasitized young adults.
  • (8) Both malnourished cancer and non-cancer patients had lower values than well-nourished (p less than 0.05).
  • (9) During period B, 8 well-nourished patients and 10 malnourished cancer patients were used as control groups.
  • (10) The measurements of feeding efficiency provides the basis for early identification of children who cannot be adequately nourished without ancillary feeding by nasogastric tube or by enterostomy.
  • (11) This study was designed to compare morphometric relationships between myelin lamellae and axons in undernourished and well nourished developing rats, and in rats nutritionally rehabilitated for two weeks.
  • (12) Adrenaline at 0.005 microgram kg-1 min-1 increased plasma FFA levels by 19% (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing patients while no significant alteration was observed in well-nourished patients.
  • (13) The well-nourished old had outcomes that did not differ from younger patients.
  • (14) The present study assessed development of malnourished and adequately nourished children in hospital and found that mean DQS of each group rose to a similar extent during recovery from illness.
  • (15) Plasma suppressive activity (PSA) was low in normal subjects and well nourished patients with benign disease and was associated entirely with alpha-2-macroglobulin (a2M).
  • (16) The concentration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and plasma cells was about half that seen in well-nourished children with severe nongastrointestinal infections.
  • (17) These infants may be at greater risk for nosocomial infection than normally nourished hosts.
  • (18) Developing rats were either malnourished or adequately nourished during the prenatal period by feeding their dams diets of 6% (low) or 25% (adequate) casein content 5 weeks prior to mating and throughout pregnancy.
  • (19) Microvillus surface area per cell appears dependent on the number of microvilli per cell, which equals the cell flat surface times the microvillus numerical density (number of microvilli per square micrometer) in well-nourished rats.
  • (20) It is concluded that most of these findings can be attributed to differences in the quantity and nature of the nitrogen supplied in the basal diets and that the sheep nourished by infusion would be a suitable model for the study of factors involved in the control of urea recycling.

Sustenance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
  • (n.) That which supports life; food; victuals; provisions; means of living; as, the city has ample sustenance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were iPhone apps to promptly register violations and upload the data into a centralised database, mobile teams to chase and photograph buses carrying "carousel" voters, hotlines to call and soup kitchens to provide sustenance.
  • (2) During and immediately after the second world war, unionism in Scotland – as elsewhere in the UK – was able to draw sustenance and strength from a common military struggle for survival, and from the common relief and satisfaction at victory in 1945.
  • (3) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
  • (4) Migration may thus be viewed as a demographic response to the populations's need to reestablish a balance between its size and sustenance organization, thus attaining its best possible living standard.
  • (5) Food, then, is considered the appropriate sustenance for all kinds of spiritual snackishness.
  • (6) In many cases I am able to apply for urgent funds towards travel and sustenance while their child is in hospital and also offer benefit guidance and practical advice, contacting agencies directly if helpful.
  • (7) We are now one of the most expensive countries in the world with the highest cost of living, and no minimum wage to ensure that a person who puts in a honest day work can afford even the basic sustenance.
  • (8) Emphasis was placed on four suggested functions of consultation: definition and legitimation of a situation or of facts as "problematic"; raising the priority of an i5sue on the agenda of action in a consultee's agency; legitimation of deviant administrative behavior, and creation and sustenance of interagency linkages.
  • (9) As the ancestors of early humans turned to meat for sustenance, they were able to grow larger brains which in turn enabled them to make more sophisticated tools.
  • (10) During the first 4 weeks of life, a foal is maximally dependent on its mother for sustenance, remains near her, and has little contact with other horses or ponies of any age.
  • (11) A so-called "Blue Revolution" in aquaculture would be required for the oceans to provide this level of sustenance.
  • (12) But there is no zero-sum game between art and sustenance.
  • (13) The smoking gun proving Obama belonged to the "stars and crescent" occurred during his interview with influential pastor Rick Warren , when he publicly admitted: "I believe Jesus died for my sins and I'm redeemed through him – that is a source of strength and sustenance on a daily basis."
  • (14) The difference in sustenance rather than magnitude of Peak T4 led to an examination of the negative feedback effects of thyroid hormones as they might relate to these seasonal changes.
  • (15) The rest left home for at least some medical care and sustenance, and half of those patients went out for everything but mental health care.
  • (16) The only other sustenance that the couple have are occasional cups of sugared tea.
  • (17) Some blameless little service – say Burma's hour of sustenance a day – is said to be in danger after 70 glorious years of truth-telling.
  • (18) The data suggest that both intravenously and orally administered calcium antagonists enhance sustenance of electrically induced AF, especially in patients with spontaneous arrhythmia.
  • (19) The results of this study confirm the importance of programs directed toward altering the basic environment and sustenance organization structures of communities rather than other ecological components such as health technology.
  • (20) Just because it's one of the most basic forms of sustenance doesn't mean we can't play a little.