innutrition
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- innutritious adjective
Etymology
Origin of innutrition
Example Sentences
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And when once on the downward slope, chronic innutrition is an important factor in sapping vitality and hastening the descent.
From The People of the Abyss by London, Jack
The pathological consequences of continued and prolonged pressure on any vital structure are innutrition, congestion, inflammation, and ulceration, resulting in weakness, waste of substance, and destruction of tissue.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
Like other diseases of its class, it is primarily due to innutrition, the result of imperfect elimination, and has hitherto defied regular medical treatment.
From The Royal Road to Health by Tyrrell, Charles Alfred
It appears, then, that a mixture of blood has a favorable effect on the metabolism of the organism, comparable to that of abundant nutrition, and that innutrition and in-and-in breeding are alike prejudicial.
From Sex and Society by Thomas, William I.
A horse with a badly deformed scissor-mouth is unable to grind the feed, and unless given special care, suffers severely from innutrition.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
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