| affect hunger | Emotional hunger for maternal love and feelings of protection and care implied in the mother-child relationship. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| air hunger | Extremely deep ventilation such as occurs in patients with acidosis attempting to increase ventilation of alveoli and exhale more carbon dioxide. See: Kussmaul respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hunger | 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably dependent on excitation of the sensory nerves, both of the stomach and intestines, and perhaps also on indirect impressions from other organs, more or less exhausted from lack of nutriment. 2. Any strong eager desire. "O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!" (Spenser) "For hunger of my gold I die." (Dryden) Origin: AS. Hungor; akin to OFries. Hunger, D. Honger, OS. & OHG. Hungar, G. Hunger, Icel. Hungr, Sw. & Dan. Hunger, Goth. Hhrus hunger, huggrjan to hunger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hunger contractions | Strong contraction's of the stomach associated with hunger pains. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hunger pain | Cramp in the epigastrium associated with hunger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| narcotic hunger | The physiological craving for narcotics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aspermatogenic sterility | Sterility due to a failure to produce living spermatozoa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| male sterility | The inability of the male to fertilise the ovum; it may or may not be associated with impotence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hybrid sterility | <genetics, zoology> The inability of a hybrid to produce viable offspring. Whether an animal hybrid is sterile or fertile depends mainly on how closely its two parent species are related. For example: mules (which are hybrids between male donkeys and female horses) are usually sterile, while hybrids between domestic dogs and wolves are fertile (hybrids between wolves and foxes are also fertile, but hybrids between dogs and foxes are sterile). (09 Oct 1997) |
| sterility | 1. The inability to produce offspring, i.e., the inability to conceive (female sterility) or to induce conception (male sterility). 2. The state of being aseptic or free from microorganisms. Origin: L. Sterilitas (13 Nov 1997) |
| normospermatogenic sterility | Male sterility due to some cause other than failure to produce live, normal spermatozoa, e.g., blockage of the seminiferous passages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dysspermatogenic sterility | Male sterility due to some abnormality in production of spermatozoa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| female sterility | The inability of the female to conceive, due to inadequacy in structure or function of the genital organs. Synonym: infecundity. (05 Mar 2000) |