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ABC-Clio
ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Amino acid
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
Ammonium
Ammonium is a modified form of ammonia that has an extra hydrogen atom.
Anemia
Anemia or anaemia (British English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen.
Animal fat
Animal fats and oils are lipids derived from animals: oils are liquid at room temperature, and fats are solid.
Animal feed
Animal feed is food given to domestic animals, especially livestock, in the course of animal husbandry.
Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
See Nutrition and Animal husbandry
Animal migration
Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis.
See Nutrition and Animal migration
Archaea
Archaea (archaeon) is a domain of single-celled organisms.
Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms.
Auxotrophy
Auxotrophy (αὐξάνω "to increase"; τροφή "nourishment") is the inability of an organism to synthesize a particular organic compound required for its growth (as defined by IUPAC).
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Bdellovibrio
Bdellovibrio is a genus of Gram-negative, obligate aerobic bacteria.
See Nutrition and Bdellovibrio
Bicarbonate
In inorganic chemistry, bicarbonate (IUPAC-recommended nomenclature: hydrogencarbonate) is an intermediate form in the deprotonation of carbonic acid.
Biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.
See Nutrition and Biochemistry
Biogeochemical cycle
A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter, is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust.
See Nutrition and Biogeochemical cycle
Biological thermodynamics
Biological thermodynamics (Thermodynamics of biological systems) is a science that explains the nature and general laws of thermodynamic processes occurring in living organisms as nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems that convert the energy of the Sun and food into other types of energy.
See Nutrition and Biological thermodynamics
Boric acid
Boric acid, more specifically orthoboric acid, is a compound of boron, oxygen, and hydrogen with formula.
Bread
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking.
Butterfat
Butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk.
Calvin cycle
The Calvin cycle, light-independent reactions, bio synthetic phase, dark reactions, or photosynthetic carbon reduction (PCR) cycle of photosynthesis is a series of chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen-carrier compounds into glucose.
See Nutrition and Calvin cycle
Captivity (animal)
Animal captivity is the confinement of domestic and wild animals.
See Nutrition and Captivity (animal)
Carbohydrate
A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).
See Nutrition and Carbohydrate
Carbon
Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is that part of the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of Earth.
See Nutrition and Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
See Nutrition and Carbon dioxide
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is any disease involving the heart or blood vessels.
See Nutrition and Cardiovascular disease
Carnivore
A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.
Carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods, and occasionally small mammals and birds.
See Nutrition and Carnivorous plant
Cat food
Cat food is food specifically formulated and designed for consumption by cats.
Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.
Cengage Group
Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.
See Nutrition and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Cheese
Cheese is a dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.
Chemical revolution
In the history of chemistry, the chemical revolution, also called the first chemical revolution, was the reformulation of chemistry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which culminated in the law of conservation of mass and the oxygen theory of combustion.
See Nutrition and Chemical revolution
Chemotaxis
Chemotaxis (from chemo- + taxis) is the movement of an organism or entity in response to a chemical stimulus.
Chemotroph
A chemotroph Greek words “chemo” (meaning chemical) and “troph” (meaning nourishment) is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments.
Chloroflexia
The Chloroflexia are a class of bacteria in the phylum Chloroflexota.
See Nutrition and Chloroflexia
Chloroplast
A chloroplast is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells.
Compost
Compost is a mixture of ingredients used as plant fertilizer and to improve soil's physical, chemical, and biological properties.
Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome
Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome (CIDS) is a medical condition present at birth marked by impaired physical and mental development, due to insufficient thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) often caused by insufficient dietary iodine during pregnancy.
See Nutrition and Congenital iodine deficiency syndrome
Cooking
Cooking, also known as cookery or professionally as the culinary arts, is the art, science and craft of using heat to make food more palatable, digestible, nutritious, or safe.
Cost–benefit analysis
Cost–benefit analysis (CBA), sometimes also called benefit–cost analysis, is a systematic approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives.
See Nutrition and Cost–benefit analysis
Courtship display
A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display.
See Nutrition and Courtship display
CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
See Nutrition and Cyanobacteria
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often known simply as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels.
Diet (nutrition)
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.
See Nutrition and Diet (nutrition)
Dietary Supplements (database)
The PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (PMDSS) is a joint project between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS).
See Nutrition and Dietary Supplements (database)
DNA repair
DNA repair is a collection of processes by which a cell identifies and corrects damage to the DNA molecules that encode its genome.
DNA replication
In molecular biology, DNA replication is the biological process of producing two identical replicas of DNA from one original DNA molecule.
See Nutrition and DNA replication
Dog food
Dog food is specifically formulated and intended for consumption by dogs and other related canines.
Earthworm
An earthworm is a soil-dwelling terrestrial invertebrate that belongs to the phylum Annelida.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Ensifer (bacterium)
Ensifer (often referred to in literature by its synonym Sinorhizobium) is a genus of nitrogen-fixing bacteria (rhizobia), three of which (Ensifer meliloti, Ensifer medicae and Ensifer fredii) have been sequenced.
See Nutrition and Ensifer (bacterium)
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
Essential amino acid
An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its demand, and must therefore come from the diet.
See Nutrition and Essential amino acid
Essential fatty acid
Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are fatty acids that are required by humans and other animals for normal physiological function that cannot be synthesized in the body.
See Nutrition and Essential fatty acid
Ester
In chemistry, an ester is a functional group derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which the hydrogen atom (H) of at least one acidic hydroxyl group of that acid is replaced by an organyl group.
Ethanol
Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
Ethology
Ethology is a branch of zoology that studies the behaviour of non-human animals.
Eukaryote
The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.
Extremophile
An extremophile is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH level.
See Nutrition and Extremophile
Fatty acid
In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
Ferrous
In chemistry, iron(II) refers to the element iron in its +2 oxidation state.
Flagellate
A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.
Flagellum
A flagellum (flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility.
Fodder
Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.
Food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.
Food energy
Food energy is chemical energy that animals (including humans) derive from their food to sustain their metabolism, including their muscular activity.
Food fortification
Food fortification or enrichment is the process of adding micronutrients (essential trace elements and vitamins) to food.
See Nutrition and Food fortification
Food processing
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
See Nutrition and Food processing
Forage
Forage is a plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems) eaten by grazing livestock.
Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
Fungal extracellular enzyme activity
Extracellular enzymes or exoenzymes are synthesized inside the cell and then secreted outside the cell, where their function is to break down complex macromolecules into smaller units to be taken up by the cell for growth and assimilation.
See Nutrition and Fungal extracellular enzyme activity
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.
Glycerol
Glycerol, also called glycerine or glycerin, is a simple triol compound.
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
See Nutrition and Great Depression
Health
Health has a variety of definitions, which have been used for different purposes over time.
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Herb
In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Heterotroph
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Human behavior
Human behavior is the potential and expressed capacity (mentally, physically, and socially) of human individuals or groups to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life.
See Nutrition and Human behavior
Human nutrition
Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and good health.
See Nutrition and Human nutrition
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.
Hydrogen ion
A hydrogen ion is created when a hydrogen atom loses an electron.
See Nutrition and Hydrogen ion
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide is a chemical compound with the formula.
See Nutrition and Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrolysis
Hydrolysis is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Ion
An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.
Ion exchange
Ion exchange is a reversible interchange of one species of ion present in an insoluble solid with another of like charge present in a solution surrounding the solid.
See Nutrition and Ion exchange
Karger Publishers
Karger Publishers, also known as Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers and S. Karger AG, is an academic publisher of scientific and medical journals and books.
See Nutrition and Karger Publishers
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Leaf vegetable
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots.
See Nutrition and Leaf vegetable
Life
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not.
Lipid
Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.
List of domesticated animals
This page gives a list of domesticated animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that have an extensive relationship with humans beyond simple predation.
See Nutrition and List of domesticated animals
Lithotroph
Lithotrophs are a diverse group of organisms using an inorganic substrate (usually of mineral origin) to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis (e.g., carbon dioxide fixation) or energy conservation (i.e., ATP production) via aerobic or anaerobic respiration.
Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
Longevity
Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age.
Macromolecule
A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biological processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid.
See Nutrition and Macromolecule
Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when an organism gets too few or too many nutrients, resulting in health problems.
See Nutrition and Malnutrition
Marasmus
Marasmus is a form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency.
Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
See Nutrition and Mass production
Metabolic syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL).
See Nutrition and Metabolic syndrome
Metabolism
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
Metabolite
In biochemistry, a metabolite is an intermediate or end product of metabolism.
Micronutrient
Micronutrients are essential dietary elements required by organisms in varying quantities to regulate physiological functions of cells and organs.
See Nutrition and Micronutrient
Milan Charter
The Milan Charter is a document that sets out some principles and objectives on the subject of nutrition, environmental sustainability, and human rights.
See Nutrition and Milan Charter
Milk
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
Mineral (nutrient)
In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.
See Nutrition and Mineral (nutrient)
Mixotroph
A mixotroph is an organism that can use a mix of different sources of energy and carbon, instead of having a single trophic mode on the continuum from complete autotrophy at one end to heterotrophy at the other.
Molecule
A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion.
Mycelium
Mycelium (mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
See Nutrition and National Geographic Society
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.
See Nutrition and National Institutes of Health
Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible.
See Nutrition and Neolithic Revolution
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University (NMSU or NM State) is a public land-grant research university in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
See Nutrition and New Mexico State University
Nitrate
Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
Nitrogen cycle
The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among atmospheric, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems.
See Nutrition and Nitrogen cycle
Nitrogen fixation
Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen is converted into ammonia.
See Nutrition and Nitrogen fixation
Nucleic Acids Research
Nucleic Acids Research is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1974 by the Oxford University Press.
See Nutrition and Nucleic Acids Research
Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.
Nutrient cycle
A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of inorganic and organic matter back into the production of matter.
See Nutrition and Nutrient cycle
Nutrient sensing
Nutrient sensing is a cell's ability to recognize and respond to fuel substrates such as glucose.
See Nutrition and Nutrient sensing
Nutritional science
Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
See Nutrition and Nutritional science
Obesity
Obesity is a medical condition, sometimes considered a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
Oligosaccharide
An oligosaccharide is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of monosaccharides (simple sugars).
See Nutrition and Oligosaccharide
Omnivore
An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
Optimal foraging theory
Optimal foraging theory (OFT) is a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food.
See Nutrition and Optimal foraging theory
Organic matter
Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.
See Nutrition and Organic matter
Organism
An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.
Organotroph
An organotroph is an organism that obtains hydrogen or electrons from organic substrates.
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass, micro-architectural deterioration of bone tissue leading to more porous bone, and consequent increase in fracture risk.
See Nutrition and Osteoporosis
Outline of food preparation
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the preparation of food: Food preparation is an art form and applied science that includes techniques like cooking to make ingredients fit for consumption and/or palatable.
See Nutrition and Outline of food preparation
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See Nutrition and Oxford University Press
Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
Oxygen cycle
Oxygen cycle refers to the movement of oxygen through the atmosphere (air), biosphere (plants and animals) and the lithosphere (the Earth’s crust).
See Nutrition and Oxygen cycle
Periplasm
The periplasm is a concentrated gel-like matrix in the space between the inner cytoplasmic membrane and the bacterial outer membrane called the periplasmic space in Gram-negative (more accurately "diderm") bacteria.
Pet
A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal.
Pet food
Pet food is animal feed intended for consumption by pets.
Phosphate
In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.
Phospholipid
Phospholipids are a class of lipids whose molecule has a hydrophilic "head" containing a phosphate group and two hydrophobic "tails" derived from fatty acids, joined by an alcohol residue (usually a glycerol molecule).
See Nutrition and Phospholipid
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
Phosphorus cycle
The phosphorus cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that involves the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.
See Nutrition and Phosphorus cycle
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
See Nutrition and Photosynthesis
Phototroph
Phototrophs are organisms that carry out photon capture to produce complex organic compounds (e.g. carbohydrates) and acquire energy.
Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
Plankton
Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).
Plant nutrients in soil
Seventeen elements or nutrients are essential for plant growth and reproduction.
See Nutrition and Plant nutrients in soil
Poison shyness
Poison shyness, also called conditioned food aversion, is the avoidance of a toxic substance by an animal that has previously ingested that substance.
See Nutrition and Poison shyness
Polymer
A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.
Polymerization
In polymer chemistry, polymerization (American English), or polymerisation (British English), is a process of reacting monomer molecules together in a chemical reaction to form polymer chains or three-dimensional networks.
See Nutrition and Polymerization
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharides, or polycarbohydrates, are the most abundant carbohydrates found in food.
See Nutrition and Polysaccharide
Preterm birth
Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks.
See Nutrition and Preterm birth
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Productivity (ecology)
In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface) per unit of time, such as grams per square metre per day (g m−2 d−1).
See Nutrition and Productivity (ecology)
Prokaryote
A prokaryote (less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
Protein
Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues.
Protist
A protist or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus.
Proton pump
A proton pump is an integral membrane protein pump that builds up a proton gradient across a biological membrane.
Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
Quality of life
Quality of life (QOL) is defined by the World Health Organization as "an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns".
See Nutrition and Quality of life
Root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster.
Root hair
Root hair, or absorbent hairs, are outgrowths of epidermal cells, specialized cells at the tip of a plant root.
Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
See Nutrition and Seasonal breeder
Short-chain fatty acid
Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are fatty acids of two to six carbon atoms.
See Nutrition and Short-chain fatty acid
Silicic acid
In chemistry, a silicic acid is any chemical compound containing the element silicon attached to oxide and hydroxyl groups, with the general formula or, equivalently,.
See Nutrition and Silicic acid
Social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
See Nutrition and Social science
Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Spice
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
See Nutrition and Springer Science+Business Media
Sterol
Sterol is an organic compound with formula, whose molecule is derived from that of gonane by replacement of a hydrogen atom on C3 position by a hydroxyl group.
Stillbirth
Stillbirth is typically defined as fetal death at or after 20 or 28 weeks of pregnancy, depending on the source.
Stoma
In botany, a stoma (stomata, from Greek στόμα, "mouth"), also called a stomate (stomates), is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange between the internal air spaces of the leaf and the atmosphere.
Stunted growth
Stunted growth, also known as stunting or linear growth failure, is defined as impaired growth and development manifested by low height-for-age.
See Nutrition and Stunted growth
Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
Sulfate
The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.
Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.
Sulfur cycle
The important sulfur cycle is a biogeochemical cycle in which the sulfur moves between rocks, waterways and living systems.
See Nutrition and Sulfur cycle
Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide (IUPAC-recommended spelling) or sulphur dioxide (traditional Commonwealth English) is the chemical compound with the formula.
See Nutrition and Sulfur dioxide
Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Taste
The gustatory system or sense of taste is the sensory system that is partially responsible for the perception of taste (flavor).
Taurine
Taurine, or 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is a non-proteinogenic naturally occurred amino sulfonic acid that is widely distributed in animal tissues.
The BMJ
The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).
Thiamine
Thiamine, also known as thiamin and vitamin B1, is a vitamin, an essential micronutrient for humans and animals.
Toxic injury
A toxic injury is a type of injury resulting from exposure to a toxin.
See Nutrition and Toxic injury
Transcription (biology)
Transcription is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA.
See Nutrition and Transcription (biology)
Triglyceride
A triglyceride (from tri- and glyceride; also TG, triacylglycerol, TAG, or triacylglyceride) is an ester derived from glycerol and three fatty acids.
See Nutrition and Triglyceride
Vegetable oil
Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.
See Nutrition and Vegetable oil
Viridiplantae
Viridiplantae (literally "green plants") constitute a clade of eukaryotic organisms that comprises approximately 450,000–500,000 species that play important roles in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
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Visual impairment
Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception.
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Vitamin
Vitamins are organic molecules (or a set of closely related molecules called vitamers) that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function.
Wasting
In medicine, wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
Water cycle
The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth.
Working animal
A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks instead of being slaughtered to harvest animal products.
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World Journal of Surgery
The World Journal of Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the field of surgery.
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