If your iron is low, eating a diet that is high in iron-rich foods such as fortified cereals, red meat, dried fruit, and beans may not be enough to give you what you need. Your doctor might recommend that you take an iron supplement.
selective. 1  having the function or power of selecting; making a selection. 2  characterized by selection, especially fastidious selection. 3  of or relating to selection. 4  Electricity, Radio. having good selectivity.
selectively permeable (or differentially permeable), allowing some substances to pass through easily, while completely or partially excluding others. Although there are several methods by which solutes may enter or leave cells, the most common is diffusion. Diffusion is the movement of a substance (e.g. molecules and ions) from a region of higher