gavage
noun
ga·vage gə-ˈväzh 
gä-
: introduction of material into the stomach by a tube
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In vivo evidence demonstrates that gavage feeding the honeysuckle decoction leads to a significant elevation of MIR2911 in mouse blood and lung. 
Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020 The buttery duck or goose liver typically comes to the plate courtesy of a controversial process known as gavage, which sees birds force-fed multiple times a day to increase the richness of the pâté. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 July 2021 Individual videos or accounts matter less than categories or memes; at the moment, my feed is mostly clips of skateboarding, cooking, and carpentry, not unlike the mundanity of the Netflix shows but also accelerated into media gavage. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020 The way he was fed was by continuous gavage (tube feeding). Annie Lane, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2020
Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020 The buttery duck or goose liver typically comes to the plate courtesy of a controversial process known as gavage, which sees birds force-fed multiple times a day to increase the richness of the pâté. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 July 2021 Individual videos or accounts matter less than categories or memes; at the moment, my feed is mostly clips of skateboarding, cooking, and carpentry, not unlike the mundanity of the Netflix shows but also accelerated into media gavage. Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020 The way he was fed was by continuous gavage (tube feeding). Annie Lane, oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2020 Word History
Etymology
French, from gaver to stuff, force-feed, from Middle French dialect (Picardy) gave gullet, crop
First Known Use
1889, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
gavage
noun
ga·vage gə-ˈväzh, gä-
: introduction of material into the stomach by a tube