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Definition of Liquid diet
1. Noun. A diet of foods that can be served in liquid or strained form (plus custards or puddings); prescribed after certain kinds of surgery.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liquid Diet
Literary usage of Liquid diet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Red Cross Text-book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by Jane A. Delano, Isabel McIsaac (1918)
"liquid diet generally includes milk, eggnog, albumen water, broths, soup, beef
juice, ... liquid diet makes least demand upon the digestive powers, ..."
2. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"liquid diet consists entirely of liquids, of which milk is the most valuable ...
A patient is given liquid diet during times of severe and dangerous illness ..."
3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"... a liquid diet) was followed by a return of all the severe symptoms, and it is
my desire to impress the fact that a strictly liquid diet appears to have ..."
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