| nutrient agar | A simple solid medium containing beef extract, peptone, agar, and water; used for growing many common heterotrophic bacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| nutrient arteries of humerus | Origin, deep brachial; distribution, the medullary cavity of the humerus. Synonym: arteriae nutriciae humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient artery | <anatomy, artery> An artery of variable origin that supplies the medullary cavity of a long bone. Synonym: arteria nutricia, nutrient vessel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient artery of femur | One of two artery's, superior and inferior, arising from the first and third perforating arteries respectively (sometimes second and fourth). (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient artery of fibula | Origin, peroneal (fibular); distribution, fibula. Synonym: arteria nutriens fibulae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient artery of the tibia | Artery derived from the upper part of the posterior tibial artery; it enters through the nutrient foramen on the posterior surface of the tibia. Synonym: arteria nutriens tibialis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient canal | A canal in the shaft of a long bone or in other locations in irregular bones through which the nutrient artery enters a bone. Synonym: canalis nutricius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient enema | A rectal injection of predigested food. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient foramen | The external opening of the nutrient canal in a bone. Synonym: foramen nutricium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient medium | A substance, either solid or liquid, used for the cultivation, isolation, identification, or storage of microorganisms. Synonym: growth medium, medium, nutrient medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient vessel | <anatomy, artery> An artery of variable origin that supplies the medullary cavity of a long bone. Synonym: arteria nutricia, nutrient vessel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrilites | Essential nutritional factors. Origin: L. Nutrio, to suckle, nourish (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutriment | 1. That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. "The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body." (South) 2. That which promotes development or growth. "Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the mind ?" (Swift) Origin: L. Nutrimentum, fr. Nutrire to nourish. See Nourish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| nutrition | All foods, the physical and chemical process by which food is converted into body tissue. (27 Sep 1997) |
| nutrition assessment | Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the nutritional status of the individual. Nutrition surveys may be used in making the assessment. (12 Dec 1998) |