nasogastric feeding
- noun
- /ˌneɪzoʊˈɡæstrɪk ˈfiːdɪŋ/
- Specialized
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alimentación nasogástrica
- After the surgery, the patient received nasogastric feeding to ensure proper nutrition while recovering.
Examples
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During her treatment, she relied on nasogastric feeding as she could not swallow solid food.
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The patient went on to have involvement of the lower limb, respiratory, and pharyngeal musculature, the latter leading to aspiration pneumonia and prolonged nasogastric feeding.
Academic text (2007) -
In view of the high risk of further aspiration, he remained on nasogastric feeding until the gag reflex was clearly present, a period of ten weeks.
Academic text (2007) -
The doctor recommended nasogastric feeding for patients who are unable to eat normally.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is clearly compositional: 'nasogastric' denotes the route (nose to stomach) and 'feeding' denotes providing nourishment, so the combined meaning is feeding via a nasogastric tube. Although medical, the constituents directly describe the procedure and similar compound logic exists cross-linguistically, so a learner who knows both words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term nasogastric feeding describes the simple image of a thin tube that goes in through the nose and down into the stomach to carry liquid food. So, it means 'to give liquid food through a tube from the nose to the stomach'.