Definition of Alimentation

1. Noun. A source of materials to nourish the body.


2. Noun. The act of supplying food and nourishment.

Definition of Alimentation

1. n. The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Definition of Alimentation

1. Noun. feeding, being fed; the provision of food and other necessities. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alimentation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Alimentation

1. To provide nourishment, feeding (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alimentation

alimental
alimentally
alimentariness
alimentary
alimentary apparatus
alimentary canal
alimentary canals
alimentary diabetes
alimentary glycosuria
alimentary lipaemia
alimentary osteopathy
alimentary paste
alimentary system
alimentary tract
alimentary tract smear
alimentation (current term)
alimentations
alimentative
alimentativeness
alimented
alimenting
alimentiveness
aliments
alimonied
alimonies
alimonious
alimony
alims
alinasal
aline

Literary usage of Alimentation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses de l'homme et des animaux by Casimir-Joseph Davaine, Emmanuel Domenech (1860)
"On a toute raison de croire que la transmission et la propagation du ténia solium se fait dans des circonstances particulières d'alimentation. ..."

2. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"alimentation is effected by the reception of new elements into the very ultimate substance, or parenchyma, of the body. This process is called assimilation, ..."

3. Lessons in Elementary Physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1885)
"THE FUNCTION OF alimentation. 1. THE great source of gain to the blood, and, except the lungs, the only channel by which altogether new material is ..."

4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"PARENTERAL alimentation Saccharose is partly utilized (Mendel and Mitchell, ... Intravenous alimentation.—Dextrose has been used in this manner clinically ..."

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