alimentation
Noun
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is a type of: food, nutrient - any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissuesubtypes:
- milk - produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
- course - part of a meal served at one time
- dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat - something considered choice to eat
- dish - a particular item of prepared food
- fast food - inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly
- finger food - food to be eaten with the fingers
- ingesta - solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth
- kosher - food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
- meal, repast - the food served and eaten at one time
- mess - soft semiliquid food
- mince - food chopped into small bits
- puree - food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender
- stodge - heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food
- wheat germ - embryo of the wheat kernel; removed before milling and eaten as a source of vitamins
- vitamin - any of a group of organic substances essential in small quantities to normal metabolism
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subtypes:
- lactation, suckling - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
- infant feeding - feeding an infant
- forced feeding, gavage - feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat
- intravenous feeding, iv - administration of nutrients through a vein
- overfeeding - excessive feeding
- spoonfeeding - feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon
- hyperalimentation, total parenteral nutrition, tpn - administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes
same as: feeding
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