Fasting
31fasting-e'en — Shrove Tuesday, the succeeding day being Ash Wednesday, the first of the Lenten fast. N …
32fasting — noun abstaining from food • Syn: ↑fast • Derivationally related forms: ↑fast, ↑fast (for: ↑fast) • Hypernyms: ↑abstinence …
33fasting serum gastrin — measurement of the levels of gastrin in blood serum after the patient has fasted for 12 hours, so that presence of food is not a factor; it is markedly increased in conditions such as Zollinger Ellison syndrome and G cell hyperplasia …
34Fasting Communion — See Early Communion …
35fasting-tuesday — Shrove Tuesday. N …
36fasting-penny — earnest money, given to servants when hired, or to bind a bargain. N …
37fasting-day — …
38Juice fasting — is a type of fasting and detox diet in which the practitioner consumes only fruit and vegetable juices. Being available only in digestible carbohydrates, these foods are digested rapidly as the juice digestion process expends only a small amount… …
39Water fasting — is a type of fasting in which the practitioner consumes only water. One may water fast for a variety of reasons, including health improvement and medical and religious requirements.Health improvementSome engage in water fasting as a detox diet.… …
40Preoperative fasting — is the practice of a patient being nil by mouth for a time before an operation is performed, in order to prevent pulmonary aspiration of stomach contents.cite book | last=Allman | first=Keith G. | coauthors=Iain H. Wilson | title=Oxford Handbook… …