Total-parenteral-nutrition
noun, Medicine/Medical.
1.
intravenous administration of a solution of essential nutrients to patients unable to ingest food, especially in cases of severe gastrointestinal or malabsorption disorders or prolonged coma.
Abbreviation: TPN.
total parenteral nutrition n.
Abbr. TPN Nutrition maintained entirely by intravenous injection or by some other nongastrointestinal route.
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