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gavage

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gavage [gə′väzh]
(medicine)
The administration of nourishment through a stomach tube.


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It is made by over-fattening the livers of ducks and geese, usually by force-feeding the bids, a process known in France as gavage.
From day 18 to day 22 after the first immunization, the mice received daily gavages of isoquercitrin (15 mg/kg) or quercetin (10 mg/kg).
Over a period of days, weeks or months, they are dosed with drugs or chemicals by injection, inhalation or gavage (force feeding).
 
 
 
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