Definitions for "Total parenteral nutrition"
A way of nourishing children through their veins (intravenously) with a solution of vitamins, minerals, protein, glucose and lipids.
When a person receives all of the nutrients needed through a needle in a vein. TPN may be used when the mouth, the stomach, or the bowel are sore from cancer treatment.
see Hyperalimentation
by injection through some route other than the alimentary canal