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inanition

exhaustion resulting from lack of food

inanition

[‚in·ə′nish·ən]
(medicine)
The exhausted, pathologic condition resulting from starvation.
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In recent years, ECT has assumed an increasingly important role in the treatment of severe and medication-resistant depression and mania as well as in the treatment of schizophrenic patients with affective disorders, delusional symptoms, vegetative dysregulation, inanition, catatonic symptoms and suicidal drive.
COMPARISON OF PROPOFOL AND KETOFOL (COMBINATION OF KETAMINE AND PROPOFOL) FOR MODIFIED ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
Religious fanaticism made the Crusaders continue the siege on the city of Antioch although they did not get the necessary logistics and a significant part of the expedition members died of inanition. The problem, however, arises after the conquest of the fortress, in order to observe the manifestation of a ferocious religious fanaticism, aspect revealed by the fact that they massacred all the Muslims, and besides them the Orthodox Christians, guilty of not supporting them in their religious war (Paine, 41).
THE PARALELISM OF THE CONTEMPORARY-MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN FANATICS AND THE SECURITY RISKS INDICATED BY THEIR OBJECTIVES
Laura buys the goblin fruit with "a precious golden lock" of her hair and "a tear more rare than pearl," and once she consumes it, she pays the price again as her body dwindles and her will is sapped by inanition (11.
The Goblin Men and the Flower Girl: New Sources for "Goblin Market"
Hastily vetted and approved--at Roosevelts urging--by Britain and America at the second Quebec conference in summer 1944, the plan died a slow death by inanition, as Americans and Europeans realized over the next year, while Stalin's Red Army occupied eastern Europe, that only resuscitation of a strong, democratic nation in the western half of Germany, including the rebuilding of her industrial might, could prevent Soviet domination of the continent.
THE ROOT OF THE MATTER: Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft
Conversely, during inanition or intracellular energy reduction (with AMPK activation), or in the presence of mTOR inhibitors, ATC proteins can be recruited to form a complex that will initiate autophagy [128].
Pancreatic Beta Cell Death: Novel Potential Mechanisms in Diabetes Therapy
In any event, Cambridge had so few Christians dons at the time that "the debate died of inanition" (34).
J.R.R. TOLKIEN AND THE 1954 NOMINATION OF E.M. FORSTER FOR THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
As the swelling increases in size, it becomes difficult for animal for prehension, mastication and shows signs like ptyalism, open mouth with protruded tongue, sub mandibular swelling and inanition which were also observed by Sagar et al.
Surgical Management of Unilateral Ranula in a Bullock
The syndrome includes inanition, weight loss, and death in many affected birds.
Diphtheritic stomatitis in yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes) in New Zealand
It seems to be Lucy's very illness, exacerbated in part by inanition in the face of isolation, that gains her the help she needs.
Reading (not-)eating in the works of Emily and Charlotte Bronte
"Where there is no vision the people perish" is a slogan often to be heard today; though most of those who repeat it seem to take it for granted that the prospering of the "people" is itself the primary and proper object of the "vision." Anyhow, I may not be far wrong in assuming that a danger deeper and more dismal is inherent in spiritual inanition and levelling than the boredom and dissatisfaction of a tiny "minority" of refined intellectuals.
The humanitarian versus the religious attitude
One of the main problems related to this issue was inanition, either because the scorpion rejected the prey, or because the use of the wrong size of prey to feed the animals.
Experiencias del mantenimiento en cautiverio de escorpiones en Costa Rica para la extraccion de veneno
Bacteria have a great potential to respond to stressing factors, be it competition between microorganisms or environmental fluctuations, such as sudden changes in temperature, low activity in water, inanition, oxydative stress, etc (Stewart, 2002).
Aquatic microbiota diversity in the culture of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) using bioflocs or periphyton: virulence factors and biofilm formation/Diversidade da microbiota aquatica em cultivo de tilapia do nilo (Oreochromis niloticus) utilizando bioflocos ou perifiton: fatores de virulencia e formacao de biofilme

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