Giving food or nourishment.
- fictitious f. SYN: sham f..
- forced f., forcible f. 1. giving liquid food through a nasal tube passed into the stomach; 2. forcing a person to eat more food than desired. SYN: forced alimentation.
- gastric f. giving of nutriment directly into the stomach by means of a tube inserted via the nasopharynx and esophagus or directly through the abdominal wall.
- nasal f. the giving of nourishment through a flexible tube passed through the nasal passages into the stomach.
- sham f. a procedure used in the study of the psychic phase of gastric secretion : in experiments on dogs, the food, after being eaten, does not enter the stomach but issues from an esophageal fistula made in the neck; the chewing and swallowing of food causes an abundant secretion of gastric juice. SYN: fictitious f..
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feed·ing (fēdґing) the taking or giving of food.Medical dictionary. 2011.