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ketogenic diet

noun

Medical Definition of KETOGENIC DIET

:  a diet supplying a large amount of fat and minimal amounts of carbohydrate and protein and used especially formerly in epilepsy to produce a ketosis and alter the degree of bodily alkalinity

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