tube feedingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈtʃuːb ˌfiːd.ɪŋ/us/ˈtuːb ˌfiː.dɪŋ/specializedproviding food through a tube into the stomach or other parts of the digestive system for patients who are cannot eat through the mouth:
Unconscious patients may require tube feeding.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving food to people & animals
- bottle-feed
- breastfeed
- fatted
- fatten sb/sth up
- fed
- feed
- feed sb/sth up
- force-feed
- nourish
- nurse
- nursing
- spoon
- spoon-feed