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Supplementation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of supplementing

n. Something added as a supplement

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of supplementing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Tho act of supplementing, filling up, or adding to.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)

n. the act of supplementing

Word Usage

"Vitamin supplementation was given to most patients in the trial and pemetrexed related side effects were significantly less in patients receiving pemetrexed when they also received daily oral folate 500mcg and intramuscular vitamin B12 1000mcg every 9 weeks compared with patients receiving pemetrexed without vitamin supplementation."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

increment increase expanding upon expansion

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

intake supplement vitamin deficiency metabolism