nasogastric
adjective
nasogastric is an adjective meaning “Pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-S-O-G-A-S-T-R-I-C, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does nasogastric mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining both to the nose and to the stomach.
- 2
Pertaining to nasogastric intubation, wherein a tube is inserted through the nostril, past the throat, and into the stomach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nasogastric?
Nasogastric appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate nasogastric?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of nasogastric: NG.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nasogastric come from?
From naso- + gastric.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).