gavage

Thân thiện

A nurse performs gavage on a patient in the hospital.

Definition

Noun: 1. Forced feeding: A method of providing nutrition, typically a liquid nutrient solution, directly into the stomach through a tube, used when a person is unable or unwilling to eat or drink sufficiently by mouth.

Usage

• Medical Context: The term is used almost exclusively in medical, clinical, or care settings to describe a specific therapeutic procedure.
• Formal Register: It is a technical term. In everyday language, people are more likely to use descriptive phrases like "tube feeding" or "being fed through a tube."
• Common Constructions: It is often used with verbs like , , , or .

Examples

• The patient, unconscious after the stroke, required gavage to maintain her nutritional status.
• The doctor decided to administer gavage via a nasogastric tube.
• In some historical contexts, gavage has been used controversially, such as in force-feeding hunger strikers.

Advanced Usage

• "To gavage" (verb, rare/technical): The act of performing forced feeding.
  • The veterinary team had to gavage the sick fledgling bird.

Variants and Related Words

• Enteral nutrition: A broader, more clinical term for providing nutrients via the gastrointestinal tract, which includes gavage.
• Tube feeding: A common, less technical synonym.
• Nasogastric intubation: The specific procedure of inserting a tube through the nose into the stomach for feeding or other purposes.

Synonyms

• Forced feeding
• Tube feeding
• Enteral feeding

Antonyms

• Oral feeding
• Voluntary eating

Học thuật

Noun

1. feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat

Từ đồng nghĩa

• forced feeding