| feedforward control | The process in which one of the products of a metabolic pathway induces an enzyme which participates in the metabolic pathway to act. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| feeding | Giving food or nourishment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feeding and eating disorders of childhood | Mental disorders related to feeding and eating that are usually diagnosed in infancy or early childhood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feeding behaviour | Behavioural responses or sequences associated with eating including modes of feeding, rhythmic patterns of eating, and time intervals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feeding centre | A region of the lateral zone of the hypothalamus, electrical stimulation of which in the rat elicits uninterrupted eating; destruction of the region causes long-lasting anorexia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feeding methods | Methods of giving food to humans or animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feeding tube | A flexible tube passed through the oral pharynx and into the oesophagus and stomach, through which liquid food is fed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| feeding, breast | The ability of the breast to produce milk diminishes soon after childbirth without the stimulation of breastfeeding. Immunity factors in breast milk can help the baby to fight off infections. Breast milk contains vitamins, minerals, and enzymes which aid the baby's digestion. Breast and formula feeding can be used together. (12 Dec 1998) |
| feedstock | <chemistry> The raw material used for chemical or biological processes. (14 Nov 1997) |
| feejee | <ethnology> See Fijian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feel | 1. To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body. 2. To have the sensibilities moved or affected. "[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron". (Burke) "And mine as man, who feel for all mankind." (Pope) 3. To be conscious of an inward impression, state of mind, persuasion, physical condition, etc.; to perceive one's self to be; followed by an adjective describing the state, etc.; as, to feel assured, grieved, persuaded. "I then did feel full sick." (Shak) 4. To know with feeling; to be conscious; hence, to know certainly or without misgiving. "Garlands . . . Which I feel I am not worthy yet to wear." (Shak) 5. To appear to the touch; to give a perception; to produce an impression by the nerves of sensation; followed by an adjective describing the kind of sensation. "Blind men say black feels rough, and white feels smooth." (Dryden) To feel after, to search for; to seek to find; to seek as a person groping in the dark. "If haply they might feel after him, and find him." - To feel of, to examine by touching. 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. "Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel." (Creecn) 2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. "Come near, . . . That I may feel thee, my son." (Gen. Xxvii. 21) "He hath this to feel my affection to your honor." (Shak) 3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. "Teach me to feel another's woe." (Pope) "Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing." (Eccl. Viii. 5) "He best can paint them who shall feel them most." (Pope) "Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt." (Byron) 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. "For then, and not till then, he felt himself." (Shak) 5. To perceive; to observe. To feel the helm, to obey it. Origin: AS. Flan; akin to OS. Giflian to perceive, D. Voelen to feel, OHG. Fuolen, G. Fuhlen, Icel. Falma to grope, and prob. To AS. Folm paim of the hand, L. Palma. Cf. Fumble, Palm. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feeler | 1. One who, or that which, feels. 2. <entomology, zoology> One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. "Insects . . . Perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennae." (Derham) 3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc, put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feeling | 1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. "Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?" (Milton) 2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. "The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse." (Shak) 3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. 4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. "A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind." (Garrick) "Tenderness for the feelings of others." (Macaulay) 5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. (Fairholt) Synonym: Sensation, emotion, passion, sentiment, agitation, opinion. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| feeling tone | The mental state (pleasure, repugnance, etc.) that accompanies every act or thought. Synonym: affective tone, emotional tone, affectivity. Fundamental tone, the component of lowest frequency in a complex tone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Feer's disease | Pain in the extremities. (12 Dec 1998) |