| 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) |
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| 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) |
| nutritionist | A specialist in nutrition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutritive | Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. <biology> Any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. Nu"tritively, Nu"tritiveness. Origin: Cf. F. Nutritif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| nutritive ratio | The ratio or proportion of digestible protein to digestible non-nitrogenous nutrients in a ration for livestock. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutritive value | An indication of the contribution of a food to the nutrient content of the diet. This value depends on the quantity of a food which is digested and absorbed and the amounts of the essential nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrate, minerals, vitamins) which it contains. This value can be affected by soil and growing conditions, handling and storage, and processing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutriture | State or condition of the nutrition of the body; state of the body with regard to nourishment. Origin: L. Nutritura, a nursing, fr. Nutrio, to nourish (05 Mar 2000) |
| nuts | Dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutshell | 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed. 2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value. 3. <zoology> A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or lie, in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Nuttall | G. H. F., U.S. Biologist, 1862-1937. See: Nuttallia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Nuttallia | Former name for Babesia. (05 Mar 2000) |