total parenteral nutrition

noun Medicine/Medical.

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. Abbreviation: TPN

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Also called hyperalimentation.

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total parenteral nutrition n.

Abbr. TPN Nutrition maintained entirely by intravenous injection or by some other nongastrointestinal route.

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