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denutrition|diːnjuːˈtrɪʃən|
[See de- I. 6, or II. 3.]
The opposite to nutrition; reversal of the nutritive process; in Med. treatment by deprivation of nourishment. Also attrib.
1868W. James in North Amer. Rev. CVII. 325 The study of those facts of elementary life, which may be summed up under the name of nutrition and denutrition. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 31 From these data we are enabled to form an estimate of the amount and kind of food necessary to maintain life in those cases of disease in which it is desirable to apply the method of denutrition. Ibid. 45 The hunger or denutrition cure. 1896Daily News 25 Jan. 5/5 Her nervous system was a good deal shaken in consequence of an accident when out riding. Denutrition has been one of the consequences. |