Lavage vs Gavage - What's the difference?
lavage | gavage |
A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
A process of force-feeding cattle for veal
(medicine) Feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach
To stuff or glut with something
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 8, Mike Albo, Of-the-Moment, Yet So Five Months Ago, New York Times
, passage=If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one. }}
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In medicine terms the difference between lavage and gavage
is that lavage is to wash a hollow organ while gavage is feeding by means of a tube passed into the stomach.gavage
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