nutriture

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   nutrition

   nutrition; nourishment

   • Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.
   • The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .
   • That the prejudice, happily for Britain, much less popular, now, than it was a few years since, which attributes to intoxicating liquors, generally, a pre-eminent nutriture, is a warmly controverted point, the reader need not be told.
2. 2

   The process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.

   • Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.
   • What range of coenzym saturation is indicative of adequate vitamin nutriture?

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