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