Eating

Introduction: Eating

Description of Eating

Eating: the act of taking in food through the mouth; ingest, chew, and swallow in turn; includes the behavior of consuming food.
Source: CRISP

Eating: The consumption of edible substances.
Source: MeSH 2007

Eating: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Eating:

• Eating symptoms (2462 causes)
• Eating disorder
• Act
• Food
• Food symptoms (1907 causes)
• Mouth
• Mouth symptoms (6864 causes)
• Mouth disease
• Mouth disorder
• Mouth pain (142 causes)

Terms associated with Eating:

Terms Similar to Eating:

• Food Intake

Source - MeSH 2007

More specific terms for Eating:

• Drinking
• Mastication

Source - MeSH 2007

• alcoholic beverage consumption
• breast feeding
• water drinking behavior
• weaning

Source - CRISP

Broader terms for Eating

• Nutrition Processes
• Digestive System Processes

Source - MeSH 2007

• nutrient intake activity
• oral behavior

Source - CRISP

Other terms that may be related to Eating:

• fasting

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Eating

The following list attempts to classify Eating into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Biochemical Phenomena, Metabolism, and Nutrition
  • Nutrition Physiology
    • Nutrition Processes
      • Eating

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Digestive, Oral, and Skin Physiology
  • Digestive Physiology
    • Digestive System Processes
      • Eating

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