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Definition of Starvation
1. Noun. A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period.
2. Noun. The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. "They were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
Definition of Starvation
1. n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
Definition of Starvation
1. Noun. a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition. ¹
2. Adjective. likely to cause starving ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starvation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starvation
Literary usage of Starvation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Under-nutrition Due to Starvation (Hunger Metabolism, Marasmus') (a) Introduction
Careful studies have been made of people who have starved themselves ..."
2. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Henry Cadwalader Chapman (1892)
"Death from Starvation—Death from Heat and Cold—Death by Lightning. -4 THE symptoms
of and post-mortem appearances in death from starvation, ..."
3. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"Metabolism during starvation and under various conditions. ... A condition of
temporary starvation must have been one of the commonest vicissitudes of life ..."
4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"The Process of Starvation 445 3. Resistance to Lack of Oxygen 445 4 ... The object
was to determine the effect of starvation upon the rate of metabolism in ..."
5. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1904)
"My heart sinks within me at the inevitable suffering of our people through actual
want and starvation," wrote John Tyler' from Petersburg "and from which ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The phenomena of starvation presents subjects of great interest from their ...
According to Chos- sat, the symptoms which intervene in starvation are at ..."
7. Feeding Experiments with Isolated Food-substances by Thomas Burr Osborne, Lafayette Benedict Mendel, Edna Louise Ferry (1911)
"Hatai* has studied the effect of partial starvation followed by normal diet on
... The "partial starvation" consisted in feeding a diet that is practically ..."
8. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"Inanition or Starvation. During starvation the body gradually loses weight; ...
The excretion of nitrogen falls quickly at the commencement of starvation, ..."
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