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Definition of Nitrogen balance
1. Noun. The balance between the amount of nitrogen taken in (to the soil or the body) and the amount given off (lost or excreted).
Medical Definition of Nitrogen balance
1. The difference between the total nitrogen intake by an organism and its total nitrogen loss. A normal, healthy adult has a zero nitrogen balance, Nin Nout (i.e., a positive nitrogen balance. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nitrogen Balance
Literary usage of Nitrogen balance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(f) Protein Balance; nitrogen balance In protein metabolism we may have (1) a
condition in which protein is neither added nor lost (protein equilibrium; ..."
2. Environmental Indicators for Agriculture by Organisation for Economic Co-operation, SourceOECD (Online service), Development. (2001)
"Comparison of the OECD and OSPARCOM nitrogen Balance calculations There are
various approaches to calculate nitrogen balances used by different national ..."
3. Physiological Economy in Nutrition by Russell Henry Chittenden (1904)
"SECOND nitrogen balance. Commencing February 29, a second nitrogen balance was
attempted with very different results. This balance period extended through ..."
4. Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet by Francis Gano Benedict (1919)
"THE nitrogen balance. It was hoped that in this study both the nitrogen intake
and the nitrogen output could be sufficiently controlled throughout the ..."
5. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF NITROGEN—THE nitrogen balance-SHEET. ... For long
experiments extending over many days the nitrogen balance may be considered as ..."
6. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1908)
"A positive nitrogen balance is not indicative of increased protein formation and
retention but may simply indicate a storage of non-protein nitrogenous ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"The earliest observable effects of minute doses of thyroid was a tendency for
the positive nitrogen balance to diminish, with diets containing either normal ..."
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