feeding tube
noun
: a flexible tube passed into the stomach for introducing fluids and liquid food into the stomach
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Buttons, hooks or zippers can become impossible to use with limited muscle control and using medical equipment like a feeding tube can become onerous.
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Zachery Eanes, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
This included the removal of her teeth and salivary glands, the use of a wheelchair and the insertion of a feeding tube, according to Blanchard.
—Scarlett Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
It’s inserted the same way as a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube is in someone who’s unable to eat or drink to provide them with liquid nutrition.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
The teen soon flips to a news report about the state of the Schiavo case, in which the vegetative woman’s husband is fighting to have her feeding tube removed against the objections of her parents and others who’ve become consumed with the ordeal.
—Mark Meszoros, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
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Zachery Eanes, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
This included the removal of her teeth and salivary glands, the use of a wheelchair and the insertion of a feeding tube, according to Blanchard.
—Scarlett Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
It’s inserted the same way as a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) feeding tube is in someone who’s unable to eat or drink to provide them with liquid nutrition.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
The teen soon flips to a news report about the state of the Schiavo case, in which the vegetative woman’s husband is fighting to have her feeding tube removed against the objections of her parents and others who’ve become consumed with the ordeal.
—Mark Meszoros, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
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“Feeding tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feeding%20tube. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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