(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.
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.