Equipment and therapies
TPN
total parenteral nutrition
Nutrition delivered intravenously, bypassing the digestive tract entirely. Parenteral means outside the intestine.
How it gets tested
The enteral/parenteral pair is the item: enteral goes through the gut, parenteral goes around it.
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