plural refeedings
Definition of refeeding
medical
: the reintroduction of nutrition (as through a feeding tube or by oral feeding) into a severely malnourished individual (such as one affected with anorexia nervosa or chronic alcoholism) to restore weight
If too rapid a refeeding program follows such periods of starvation, providing protein and carbohydrate without cofactors such as thiamin and magnesium, serious metabolic and neurologic disturbances can follow.— Sue Rodwell Williams
— see also refeeding syndrome
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The first known use of refeeding was in 1932
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