Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long flexible tube to be introduced into the stomach, through the gullet, as for washing out the stomach.
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Examples
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I believe it was my ability to stomach-tube earthworms that convinced
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_ -- Promote vomiting by warm greasy water, or the stomach-tube may be used.
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In using the elastic stomach-tube, some fluid should be introduced into the stomach before attempting to empty it, or a portion of the mucous membrane may be sucked into the aperture.
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_ -- Use the stomach-tube to give a solution of permanganate of potash, emetics, followed by a hypodermic injection of 1/50 grain of atropine.
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The first indication is met by the administration of emetics, to produce vomiting, or by the application of the stomach-tube.
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The passage of a stomach-tube for feeding purposes may be done, but it is often painful, and is dangerous in the presence of ulceration.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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A soft rubber stomach-tube is pulled up from below and left in situ, being replaced at intervals by a fresh one, pulled up from the stomach, until epithelialization of the new lumen is complete.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Nutrition can be maintained by feeding with the stomach-tube, which meets no resistance to its passage.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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When the patient has difficulty in taking food, recourse should be had to the use of the stomach-tube or to gastrostomy.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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For some days or even weeks the patient must be fed through an elastic catheter introduced through the nose and retained, or by an ordinary stomach-tube through the mouth.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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