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A feeding tube is a medical device used to provide nutrition to patients who cannot do so via the normal oral route. Placement may be temporary for the treatment of acute conditions or lifelong in the case of chronic disabilaties. Many patients treated using a feeding tube lack the ability to survive on their own without such technology. A variety of feeding tubes are used in medical practice. They are usually made of polyurethane or silicone. ...
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| feedback |
A sequence of interactions that determines the response of a system to an initial perturbation. Feedbacks may either amplify (positive feedback) or reduce (negative feedback) the ultimate state of the system.
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| feeding |
(Rare.) Descriptive of a windstorm of increasing intensity.
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| feedback |
Feedback in a closed loop system represents the return signal or response of the system to input instruction.
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| feedback inhibition |
A post-translational control mechanism in which the end product of a biochemical pathway inhibits the activity of the first enzyme of this pathway.
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