NUTRITIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nutritionist mean? 

• NUTRITIONIST (noun)
  The noun NUTRITIONIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in the study of nutrition

  Familiarity information: NUTRITIONIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTRITIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in the study of nutrition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("nutritionist" is a kind of...):

specialiser; specialist; specializer (an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning)

Derivation:

nutrition (the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans))

nutrition (a source of materials to nourish the body)

nutrition ((physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance)

 Context examples 

Each volunteer in the study had both a unique amount of inflammatory response and a unique amount of time for when the responses peaked, up to 6 hours after eating (8 or more hours is considered fasting by nutritionists).

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Also called nutritionist.

(Dietitian, NCI Dictionary)

It is also is used by nutritionists in measuring the energy-producing potential of food as a unit of potential energy contained by a substance, which can be liberated when the material is oxidized, usually by combustion in the presence of oxygen.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)