Synonyms are different words or phrases with the same meaning:

• "Feline" and "canine" are Latin derivatives used in "science English" for cat and dog;
• "Flu" is a shorter term for the more formal scientific term influenza;
• Myocardial infarction is the medical term for "heart attack."

Use them in your searches to ensure that you aren't missing anything. Not all writers use the same words to describe the same things.

Many subject words and phrases exist in a broad-to-narrow hierarchy. "Nutrition" is a broad term that can pertain to many things. "Minerals in nutrition," "nutrition in plants," and "vitamin A in human nutrition" are examples of narrow terms.

Related terms are other words and phrases you can search:

Concept 1: Synonyms and related terms for "health risks " include side affects, adverse affects, long-term affects.

Concept 2: Synonyms and related terms for "bioengineered foods" include transgenic organisms, genetically altered organisms, genetically modified organism, genetically modified foods, gene-altered organism, transgenic plants, "frankenfoods."

Concept 3: Synonyms and related terms for "nutrition" include diet, dietetic, human behavior — nutritional aspects, minerals in human nutrition.

Concept 4: Synonyms and related terms for children include infants, infancy, babies, child, pre-adolescents, adolescents.

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