Gavage Definition

gə-väzh
noun
The administration of liquids through a stomach tube, as in forced feeding.
Webster's New World

A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras.

Wiktionary

A process of force-feeding cattle for veal.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • forced feeding
verb

To stuff or glut with something.

Wiktionary

Origin of Gavage

  • French from gaver to force down the throat ultimately from Old French gave throat from Vulgar Latin gaba

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French gavage, from gaver (“to stuff or cram”)

    From Wiktionary

Gavage Sentence Examples

  • Dr. Robinson indicated that the route of administration in the HESI studies was by oral gavage.

  • If a premature infant is unable to nurse at the breast or drink from a bottle, fluids and nutrients may be administered intravenously or with a tube in the nose or mouth that empties into the stomach (called gavage feeding).

  • Even if a baby is unable to feed at the breast, a mother may pump her breast milk to be given to the infant via gavage feeding.

  • Further consideration was given to the negative results in the single dose UDS assay in the forestomach of mice using gavage dosing.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAV

Words Ending With

EGEAGE

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