Feeding

(fe'-ding). The taking of food or aliment. F., Artificial, the introduction of food into the body by means of artificial devices, such as the stomach-pump or in the form of an enema. Also, the nourishing of a child by food other than the mother's milk. F-bottle, a gla flask armed with a rubber nipple, used in feeding liquid food to infants. F. -cup, a cup used in the forcible feeding of the insane. F., Forcible, the administration of aliment by compulsion to such patients as refuse to take food in the natural manner. F. -gland, a chyle-gland or " salivary gland " of working bees. F. -groove, a narrow trough on the tongue of a worker bee, along which the honey is brought by compre ion of the honey-sac. F. by the Rectum, the introduction of food into the rectum in the form of an enema or suppository. F.-system. See Rest-cure.