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HUNGER and THIRST. These terms are used to express peculiar sensations which are produced by and give expression to general wants of the system
Hunger (a word common to Teutonic languages) is a peculiarly indefinite sensation of craving or want which is referred to the stomach, but with which is often combined, always indeed in its most pronounced stages, a general feeling of weakness or faintness. The earliest stages are unattended with suffering, and are characterized as " appetite for food." Hunger is normally appeased by the introduction of solid or semi-solid nutriment into the stomach, and it is probable that the almost immediate alleviation of the sensation in these circumstances is in part
influence , perhaps connected with a free secretion of gastric juice. Essentially, however, the sensation of hunger is a mere local expression of a general want, and this local expression ceases when the want is satisfied, even though no food be introduced into the stomach, the needs of the economy
intestine
Thirst (a word of Teutonic origin, Ger. Durst, Swed. and Dan. torst, akin to the Lat. torrere, to parch) is a peculiar sensation of dryness and heat localized in the tongue and throat . Although thirst may be artificially produced by drying, as by the passage of a current of air over the mucous membrane of the above parts, normally it depends upon an impoverishment of the system
intestine
part
The sensations of hunger and thirst lead us, or when urgent compel us, to take food and drink into the mouth. Once in the mouth, the entrance to the alimentary canal, the food begins to undergo a series of processes, the object
body
body
supply the chemical agents which dissolve and render assimilable those constituents of the food capable of being absorbed into the organism, and of forming oa.rt and parcel of its substance (see further under1N ITTRITION). End of Article: HUNGER If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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