feedings

Giving food regularly

Feedings are instances of giving food, especially to infants or animals on a schedule: The baby needs feedings every three hours, The zoo's seal feedings draw crowds.

In medical contexts, feedings may be administered through tubes when patients cannot eat normally.

infant

bottle

Container for liquids

lactation · burping · latch · colostrum · weaning · pumping · nipple · expressed milk · spit-up · letdown

mealtime

breakfast

Day's first eating

portions · servings · schedule · routine · highchair · bib · spoon · puree · solids · finger foods

medical

tube

Hollow cylindrical passage

  • enteralPertaining to intestines
  • parenteralNot via alimentary canal
  • IVVein-delivered medication method

nasogastric · bolus · drip · infusion · pump · caloric intake · patient · hospital · supplemental · continuous

animal

trough

Open container for animal feed

  • hayDried feed crop
  • pelletsSmall compressed spheres
  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit

fodder · silage · pasture · grazing · watering · livestock · poultry · aquarium · zoo · wildlife

Opposites
nourishment provision

feedingsdeprivations

States of lacking necessities

abstentions · skipped meals · starvations · fasting · starving

metabolic state

feedingsfasting

Deliberate food avoidance

starving · hungering · depleting · wasting · emaciation

consumption direction

feedingsregurgitations

Expelled stomach contents

purgings · expulsions · eliminations

Phrases
Family

feeding, breastfeeding

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