NUTRITION

n. Nu2t-ri2'shu3 n. Gr., flpc'tfris. Lat., nutritio, nutritus (from nutrire, to nourish). Fr., n. Ger., Ernahrung. 1. The function po e ed by living organisms of repairing ti ue waste by the absorption and a imilation of new alimentary materials; also the state of general well-being kept up by that function. 2. See NUTRIMENT. [K.] NUTRITIOUS, NUTRITIVE, adj's. Nut-rish'u , nu2t'ri2- tia v. Lat., nutritivus (from nutrire, to nourish). Ger., nahrhaft, ndhrend. Furnishing nourishment, subserving the function of nutrition, [a, 48.] [s. 119]