Word Meanings - INNUTRITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.

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• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• NUTRITION
  In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth. Note: In this wide sense it comprehends digestion,
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• NUTRITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
• NOURISHMENT
  1. The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition. 2. That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker.
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• INNUTRITION
  Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• DENUTRITION
  The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.
• MALNUTRITION
  Faulty or imperfect nutrition.