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GASTROGAVAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gastrogavage mean?
• GASTROGAVAGE (noun)
The noun GASTROGAVAGE has 1 sense:
1. feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening
Familiarity information: GASTROGAVAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gastrogavage" is a kind of...):
forced feeding; gavage (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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