| NIA | National Institute on Aging; nephelometric inhibition assay; niacin; no information available; Nutri... |
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| NST | neospinothalamic [tract]; nonshivering thermogenesis; nonstress test; nutritional support team |
| PNI | peripheral nerve injury; postnatal infection; prognostic nutritional index |
| nutritional status | State of the body in relation to the consumption and utilization of nutrients. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| nutritional support | The administration of nutrients for assimilation and utilization by a patient by means other than normal eating. It does not include fluid therapy which normalises body fluids to restore water-electrolyte balance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutritional type cerebellar atrophy | A restricted type of cerebellar cortical degeneration, affecting particularly the Purkinje cells of the anterior and superior vermis; probably caused by thiamin deficiency; most frequently seen in chronic alcoholics and then called alcoholic cerebellar degeneration. (05 Mar 2000) |