Supernutrition
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Supernutrition is a noun meaning The presence of excessive quantities of nutrients, especially such as leads to hypertrophy or to excessive growth.
Meaning
The presence of excessive quantities of nutrients, especially such as leads to hypertrophy or to excessive growth.
More Meanings
- The ingestion of large amounts of nutrients; Hyperalimentation.
- Overeating.
Example Sentences
The pollution includes heavy metals, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfides and supernutrition.
The principal feature of carcinomatous cell proliferations can be denoted as hypermitosis, depending upon supernutrition of the cells.
The protein of the blood plasma is not a constant but a fluctuating quantity, being lowered in sickness and subnutrition and raised in supernutrition.
Biernacki (1909) sought to determine with dogs the effects of "supernutrition" on mineral metabolism. The foods added to the standard diets were butter, sugar and eggs.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hyperalimentation, overnourishment, superalimentation, mass, overgrowth, overabundance.
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