nourishment

My body runs on a different kind of nourishment.

Although his mind was receiving nourishment, the same could not be said for Balzac's body.

The eggs are retained in or on the parent's body but the larvae subsist on the yolks of their eggs and receive no nourishment from the adult.

Pasiphaë nursed him in his infancy, but he grew and became ferocious, being the unnatural offspring of man and beast, he had no natural source of nourishment and thus devoured man for sustenance.

Wheat provides more nourishment for humans than any other food source.

After Larkin has been persuaded to restock his tangled acres with pheasants, he poaches only what he needs for the nourishment of his family and local callers.

The mother's evolutionary imperative is often to conserve resources for her own survival while providing sufficient nourishment to current and subsequent litters.

Over the years Catherine had eaten less and less, claiming that she found no nourishment in earthly food.

Beach nourishment is common for major beach cities around the world ; however the beaches that have been nourished can still appear quite natural and often many visitors are unaware of the works undertaken to support the health of the beach.

Jasmuheen ( born 1957 as Ellen Greve ) is an Australia-based proponent of " pranic nourishment " or breatharianism, defined as the practice of living without food or fluid of any sort.

They testify that under him, Egyptians enjoyed unprecedented access to housing, education, health services, and nourishment as well as other forms of social welfare.

The farmers grew to " hate " the trees, and chopped them down, starved them from nourishment by cutting deep gashes in the bark, and burned them to clear the way to get to the fertile soils underneath.

Alternatively, they may have used stored yolk products for nourishment during their first few days of life, as in modern reptiles, rather than depend on parents for food.

nourishment ) are the organisms that carry out photon capture to acquire energy.

Arterial lines provide a constant monitor of blood pressure, as well as a method of obtaining samples for blood gas tests ; central lines can also monitor blood pressure and provide blood samples, as well as provide a means to deliver medication and nourishment ; fingerpricks ( or heelpricks on small babies ) are used to obtain blood samples for certain tests.

A bitter nourishment — perhaps the best there is for certain people.

The reasons for beginning a meal must somehow be related to the fact that the body needs nourishment: Physiological factors clearly are involved in eating.

Nutrition ( also called nourishment or aliment ) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary ( in the form of food ) to support life.

Hypertrophy results from an increase in cell size, while hyperplasia is from an increase in cell number. Hypertrophy ( from Greek ὑπέρ " excess " + τροφή " nourishment ") is the increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells.

Tacitus however leaves open the possibility that she was deprived of nourishment while in prison and her death was not voluntary.

He rose rapidly from prisoner to staff member on the strength of his proposal to the camp administration that they link inmates ' food rations to their rate of production, the proposal known as nourishment scale ( шкала питания ).

She is sometimes called " goddess of nourishment ", a goddess of plenty and the female aspect of corn.

The first nourishment project in the U. S. was at Coney Island, New York in 1922-23 and is now a common shore protection measure utilized by public and private entities.

This symmetrical balancing and equal weight given to both spiritual and physical nourishment would no doubt have appealed to Vanbrugh's renowned sense of humour, if not the Duchess's.

In monotremes, mammals which lay eggs, namely the platypus and the echidnas, either the term uterus or oviduct is used to describe the same organ, but the egg does not develop a placenta within the mother and thus does not receive further nourishment after formation and fertilization.