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carbohydrate loading (medicine)


carbohydrate loading


A procedure popular with long-distance runners and Other athletes of filling muscles with a large glycogen pool prior to an athletic event; often, the athlete consumes very few carbohydrates for three days followed by a largely carbohydrate diet for the last three days before the event.


sluice (medicine)


sluice


1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate.

2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. "Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon." (Harte) "This Home familiarity . . . Opens the sluices of sensibility." (I. Taylor)

3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

4. <chemical> A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.

Origin: OF. Escluse, F. Ecluse, LL. Exclusa, sclusa, from L. Excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. Sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.

Source: Websters Dictionary