Nutriment vs. Nutrition

Nutrimentnoun

A source of nourishment; food.

Nutritionnoun

(biology) The organic process by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.

Nutrimentnoun

Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.

Nutritionnoun

That which nourishes; nutriment.

Nutrimentnoun

That which nourishes; a nutrient; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

‘The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body.’;

Nutritionnoun

In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which a living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

Nutrimentnoun

That which promotes development or growth.

‘Is not virtue in mankindThe nutriment that feeds the mind?’;

Nutritionnoun

In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.

Nutrimentnoun

a source of materials to nourish the body

Nutritionnoun

That which nourishes; nutriment.

‘Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot,To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.’;

Nutritionnoun

(physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

Nutritionnoun

a source of materials to nourish the body

Nutritionnoun

the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It includes ingestion, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion.The science that studies the physiological process of nutrition is called nutritional science (also nutrition science).