sitiomania, sitomania
(s) (noun); sitiomanie; sitomanie
(pl) ;
A craze for eating varieties and quantities of foods or specific kinds of food: Jack's parents were getting upset with his obsessive eating habits, and, after conferring with their doctor,, Jack was diagnosed with having a case of sitomania
sitiophobia, sitophobia
(s) (noun) (no pl)
1. An abnormal fear of food or of eating: Following chemotherapy, for example, a case of sitiophobia can occur when the patient does not want to take in nourishment because of the very unpleasant symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
2. Psychoneurotic abhorrence of food: Sitophobia can arise when a young woman has an eating disorder and a strong repugnance to nourishment, whether generally or only to specific dishes.
sitology, sitiology
(s) (noun) (no pl)
The science of diet and nutrition:
Sitology is the branch of medicine dealing with nutrition and dietetics.
Sitology is also concerned with the branch of therapeutics involving the practical application of diet in relation to health and disease.
sitotaxis
(s) (noun), sitotaxes
(pl)
The movement of a cell or organism in response to a food stimulus: The shared affinity toward food is termed positive sitotaxis, and the aversion of food is termed negative sitotaxis.
sitotherapy
(s) (noun), sitotherapiesa
(pl)
The therapeutic use of food: Janet was amazed when she learned about sitotherapy, a method of medical treatment involving food consumption.
sitotoxin
(s) (noun), sitotoxins
(pl)
An organic substance that produces poisoning: A
sitotoxin can be any poison developed in food, especially one produced by bacteria growing in a cereal or grain product.
Sitotoxins cause the poisoning of vegetable foods and infest them with molds or bacteria.S
This word refers to "aflatoxin", a toxin produced by some strains of Aspergillus flavus that causes cancer in laboratory animals. It may be present in peanuts and other seeds contaminated with Aspergillus molds. Farm animals and humans are susceptible to this toxicosis.
It is not practical to try to remove aflatoxin from contaminated foods in order to make them edible. In other words, throw moldy food away! It is very dangerous to attempt to clean mold off food and then eat it!
sitotoxism
(s) (noun) (no pl)
The condition of poisoning by vegetable foods infested with molds or bacteria: One example of sitotoxism is the contamination by toxins in food,particularly in grains.
sitotropism, sitotropic
The turning of living cells toward or away from a food source, also, sitotaxis.
superparasite, superparasitism
Infestation of parasites by other parasites; that is, parasites on other parasites.
tropoparasite
(s) (noun), tropoparasites
(pl)
1. A parasite which can thrive in alternating periods of heat and cold.
2. A parasite that is adapted to seasonal weather changes.
xenoparasite
(s) (noun), xenoparasites
(pl)
An ectoparasite that becomes pathogenic when the resistance of its host weakens: A xenoparasite is a strange organism not usually parasitic on the host but that becomes so because of a weakened condition of the host.
xenoparasitism
(s) (noun) (no pl)
A situation of xenoparasitic activity: In the article about parasites, Mrs. Black read about xenoparasitism describing the functioning and actions of a specific kind of ectoparasite called xenoparasites.
zooparasite
(s) (noun), zooparasites
(pl)
An animal that obtains its sustenance from another animal: Joan read about zooparasites in her biology book and learned that a zooparasite can be a worm or a protozoa living in an another animal.
