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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena MeSH Descriptor Data 2025
general or unspecified; prefer specifics; NUTRIENTS (see FOOD) and DIET are also available; use NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES for clinical nutrition as a specialty; use NUTRITION THERAPY or specifics for nutritional intervention
Scope Note
The processes and properties of living organisms by which they take in and balance the use of nutritive materials for energy, heat production, or building material for the growth, maintenance, or repair of tissues and the nutritive properties of FOOD.
2009; see NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY 2007-2008, see NUTRITION 1963-2006; for NUTRITION PHENOMENA see NUTRITION PHENOMENA 2007-2008; for NUTRITION PROCESSES see NUTRITION PROCESSES 2007-2016
The processes and properties of living organisms by which they take in and balance the use of nutritive materials for energy, heat production, or building material for the growth, maintenance, or repair of tissues and the nutritive properties of FOOD.