Definition of Forced feeding

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

Exact synonyms: Gavage
Generic synonyms: Alimentation, Feeding
Specialized synonyms: Nasogastric Feeding, Gastrogavage
Derivative terms: Force-feed

Medical Definition of Forced feeding

1. Giving liquid food through a nasal tube passed into the stomach, forcing a person to eat more food than desired. Synonym: forced alimentation. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Forced Feeding

force play
force pump
force someone's hand
force unit
forceable
forced
forced alimentation
forced beat
forced convection
forced cycle
forced duction
forced expiratory flow
forced expiratory flow rates
forced expiratory time
forced expiratory volume
forced feeding (current term)
forced grasping reflex
forced labor
forced laborer
forced laborers
forced labour
forced landing
forced march
forced out
forced respiration
forced rhyme
forced rhymes
forced sale
forced vital capacity
forcedly

Literary usage of Forced feeding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"Changes in the Ovaries Attending Starvation and forced feeding.— PETROFF (abstract of thesis in IM ..."

2. Farm Poultry: A Popular Sketch of Domestic Fowls for the Farmer and Amateur by George Catchpole Watson (1919)
"forced feeding for eggs.—It is maintained by some authorities that, when hens are given a course of forced feeding for egg production, their period of ..."

3. Practical dietetics: With Special Reference to Diet in Diseases by William Gilman Thompson (1905)
"forced feeding.—When food is absolutely refused by the patient, the question of forced feeding must be considered in order to tide him over the emergency ..."

4. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1901)
"Marked increase on forced feeding. Very large quantities passed on forced feeding. ... No marked increase as a rule on forced feeding. Tuberculous. ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The temporary increase in the absorption of nitrogen on forced feeding as ... The very rapid increase in weight during the period of forced feeding and the ..."

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