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Nutrition and Feeding Vocabulary

Understand terminology for feeding routes and intake notes.

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Feeding terms can describe a route, a procedure, or an observation. For example, oral intake describes what is taken by mouth, while a gastrostomy names an opening into the stomach.

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What does enteral feeding use?

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