intravenous feeding

1. 1.

   administration of nutrients through a vein

   SynonymsIV

   Broaderfeeding

Questions about intravenous feeding

What does intravenous feeding mean?

intravenous feeding means "administration of nutrients through a vein".

What is another word for intravenous feeding?

Close synonyms include IV. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intravenous feeding a common word?

intravenous feeding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.