Its powers are vested in a diet representing the component members of the confederacy; in the emperor, who is the executive magistrate, with a negative on the decrees of the diet; and in the imperial chamber and the aulic council, two judiciary tribunals having supreme jurisdiction in controvers...
- Comes from Greek diaita, "a way of life, mode of living." See also related terms for mode. Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved. Diet a formal public assembly, e.g., Diet of Worms, 1521. See also assembly. Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group ...
The roundwormTrichinella spiraliscausestrichinosis. As in tapeworm infections, the mature worms are largely confined to the intestines where symptoms includenausea,heartburn,dyspepsia,diarrhea, andeosinophiliabut larvae can migrate through the body, producingedema, muscle pain, fever, and weakness. The gre...
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A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521. Diet To cause to take food; to feed. Diet To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate...
Infectious disease burden.Eukaryotic pathogens such as protozoa, worms, and fungi – ie, pathogens that have mitochondria and therefore can metabolize fat and ketones – are often able to take up human lipoproteins from blood and use their fats and cholesterol for their own purposes. This tends ...
The replacement of larval epidermis by a syncytial neodermis with subepithelial perikarya unites the Neodermata phylogenetically (Ehlers, 1985). Cestoda are endoparasitic tapeworms with complex lifecycles (multiple hosts) that infect a diversity of final vertebrate (all classes) and intermediate ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Wikipedia an assembly of all the states of the German empire. See also:Imperial Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit...
"all [diets] blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out" [Jean Kerr Please Don't Eat the Daisies] diet2 noun (often cap.) council, meeting, parliament, sitting, congress, chamber, convention, legislature, legislative assembly The ...
Humans have multiple genes which are analogs toDaf-2, including insulin-like growth factor 1 as well as insulin, and IGF-1 appears to be more strongly related to longevity than insulin in humans. More significantly,insulin actuallyantagonizesDaf-2 in worms, inhibiting its signaling; calling into...