gavage

If gavage is stopped the "return to normal took approximately four weeks".

In the gavage act, various food items are pumped into his stomach, and sucked out again.

For this reason, the gavage study was not chosen as the principal study.

Several studies have also demonstrated that mortality rates can be significantly elevated during the gavage period.

Preparation for gavage usually begins 4-5 months before slaughter.

Force-feeding is also known as gavage, from a French word meaning "to gorge".

He admits readily that his ducks, after 18 weeks of gavage, weigh roughly six times what they do at the start.

Tubefeeding is also frequently referred to as gavage feeding.

But what about this gavage business?

At two weeks, slow periodic feedings of sugar water were fed to his stomach through a nasal gavage tube.

To animal welfare groups, the obscenity of force-feeding, known by the French word gavage, is self-evident.

Compound was administered by oral gavage to pregnant mice once a day for two days at 100 μl per 10 g body weight.

Differences in the observed effect level in the drinking water study versus the gavage study may relate to the method of administration.

This could account for differences in the nephropathy severity levels observed with drinking water compared with gavage administration.

Animal-rights activists decry the practice, called gavage.

In France, the fattening is achieved through gavage (force-feeding) corn, according to French law.

In a statement, it called gavage "true torture for geese and ducks" and appealed to the French not to eat it.

He also popularized a technique known as gavage for feeding premature infants who were too weak to receive nourishment by conventional methods.

Its mascot is the Gosling, a reference to large quantity of foie gras once produced in the city by goose gavage.

I visited Hudson Valley Foie Gras last week, seeing gavage for the first time.

Watch as George "The Giant" does acts of sword swallowing, eye lid lift, and the truly repulisive gavage act.

The state of being fed by a feeding tube is called gavage, enteral feeding or tube feeding.

Others have expressed skepticism at these claims of humane treatment, as earlier attempts to produce fattened livers without gavage have not produced satisfactory results.

The previous RfD is based on the gavage study conducted by American Biogenics Corp. (1986).

An oral gavage study on isopropanol (Bevan et al., 1995), which is metabolized primarily to acetone, also supports nephropathy as the critical effect.