'enteral' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a route of administration for certain types of medication or nutrition, where the drug or food is taken into the body through the gastrointestinal tract. Example sentence: The enteral route is most commonly used for feeding patients who are unable to eat or drink.
Drugs are given by two general methods: enteral and parenteral administration.
The number of prisoners on hunger strike has risen to 84, an increase of 32 since last Wednesday, with 16 now receiving "enteral feedings," a process involving being force-fed via tubes.
Like the keto diet, enteral nutrition — an all-liquid diet — has been recognized for decades as an effective treatment for Crohn's.
As the author of a book on the use of enteral nutrition to treat Crohn's disease, I am all too familiar with the skepticism Fred Vogelstein faces because of his son's use of the ketogenic diet for epilepsy (Nov. 21).
The process, called the KEN, or ketogenic enteral nutrition, diet in Europe, was invented by Dr. Gianfranco Cappello of the University of Rome.
To force food into them, the military now shoves a tube down their nose, in an extremely painful procedure it called "enteral feeding".
In England, where it has been offered for the past year as the KEN (or ketogenic enteral nutrition) diet, The Daily Mail asked if it was "the most extreme diet ever," before adding that a National Health Service doctor was offering it.
The tapes of Dhiab's feedings are said to range between 15 minutes to half an hour each, suggesting the government possesses at least eight hours of footage of just one detainee enteral feeding.
Those subjected to enteral feeding are put on a controlled re-introduction of regular meals to avert "re-feeding syndrome", which can affect people who suddenly resume eating.
Dhiab contends that the military's practice of forcibly feeding detainees through tubes inserted through the nose into the stomach is abusive, as is removing detainees from their cells against their will to conduct what the military calls "enteral feeding".
"No hunger striker is currently in medical danger, including those receiving enteral feeds.
