alimentation
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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The problem of alimentation is, indeed, one of the most essential, perhaps the most essential, in the history of humanity.
From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet
By alimentation is meant not only necessary food, but raiment and things of personal necessity and comfort commensurate with the husband’s ability to make such provision.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose
In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder
Rectal Feeding.—When the prostration is great, it is sometimes necessary to give saline enemas and even rectal alimentation to prevent collapse.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
