DIETARY SUPPLEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dietary supplement mean? 

• DIETARY SUPPLEMENT (noun)
  The noun DIETARY SUPPLEMENT has 1 sense:

1. something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency

  Familiarity information: DIETARY SUPPLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIETARY SUPPLEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("dietary supplement" is a kind of...):

diet (a prescribed selection of foods)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dietary supplement"):

vitamin pill (a pill containing one or more vitamins; taken as a dietary supplement)

 Context examples 

If you don't get enough folic acid from the foods you eat, you can also take it as a dietary supplement.

(Folic Acid, NIH: National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements)

This dietary supplement may exhbit anti-infective activity in immunocompromised patients.

(Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, NCI Thesaurus)

Ferrous sulfate is a type of hematinic and a type of dietary supplement.

(Ferrous sulfate, NCI Dictionary)

This agent is used as a dietary supplement, and to prevent or treat iron deficiency related syndromes.

(Ferrous Fumarate, NCI Thesaurus)

Ferrlecit is a type of hematinic and a dietary supplement.

(Ferrlecit, NCI Dictionary)

A dietary supplement containing the levo-enantiomers of carnitine and tartrate with potential chemoprotective and antioxidant activities.

(L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A dietary supplement containing all or most of the vitamins that may not be readily available in the diet.

(Multivitamin, NCI Thesaurus)

A mixture of eight herbs that has been sold as a dietary supplement and promoted as a way to keep the prostate healthy and to treat prostate cancer.

(PC-SPES, NCI Dictionary)

Ensure is a type of dietary supplement.

(Nutritional Supplement Drink, NCI Dictionary)

A food or dietary supplement that is believed to provide health benefits.

(Nutraceutical, NCI Dictionary)