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diet collapse: the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods); the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal); a prescribed selection of foods; a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan); eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight; follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

avoidance collapse: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

asceticism collapse: rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state

amino acid collapse: organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are composed of various proportions of about 20 common amino acids"

polymer collapse: a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers

Stoicism collapse: an indifference to pleasure or pain; (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno

pollen collapse: the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant

pellagra collapse: a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments

rickets collapse: childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus

goiter collapse: abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet

junior high school collapse: a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades

secondary school collapse: a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

malnutrition collapse: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

grammar school collapse: a secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college

academy collapse: a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge; a school for special training; a secondary school (usually private); an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature

synthetic collapse: a compound made artificially by chemical reactions; of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"; systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words; involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch; not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will

laminate collapse: a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers; split (wood) into thin sheets; cover with a thin sheet; "laminate the table"; press or beat (metals) into thin sheets; create laminate by putting together several thin sheets of a material

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