The starting point for much of the action on the field is home plate, which is a five-sided slab of whitened rubber, 17 inches square with two of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent sides are 8 1â2 inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and set at an angle to make a point.
Medical Dictionary. hyperalimentation. play. noun hyÂ·perÂ·alÂ·iÂ·menÂ·taÂ·tion \ËhÄ«-pÉ-Ëral-É-mÉn-ËtÄ-shÉn\. Medical Definition of hyperalimentation. : the administration of nutrients by intravenous feeding especially to patients who cannot ingest food through the digestive tract.
This realization resulted in the development of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and the philosophy that if some nutrition is good, more is better, and the coining of the term hyperalimentation. A flurry of studies then appeared in the literature extolling the virtues of superfeeding through a central venous catheter in promoting recovery from conditions ranging from anorexia to cancer.