total parenteral nutrition

American  

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. TPN

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Example Sentences

For the time being, she received nutrients through an IV placed in her vein 12 hours every day, pumping total parenteral nutrition, or TPN.

From Washington Times • Jul. 20, 2014

She would have to be fed through a process called total parenteral nutrition, or TPN, an intravenous delivery of the salts, glucose, vitamins, amino acids and lipids she needed to live.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2010