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A feeding tube is a medical device used to provide nutrition to patients who cannot obtain nutrition by mouth, are unable to swallow safely, or need nutritional supplementation.

The state of being fed by a feeding tube is called gavage, enteral feeding or tube feeding.

Placement may be temporary for the treatment of acute conditions or lifelong in the case of chronic disabilities.

Urinary incontinence (UI), also known as involuntary urination, is any leakage of urine.

It is a common and distressing problem, which may have a large impact on quality of life.

It is twice as common in women as in men.

Pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause are major risk factors.

It has been identified as an important issue in geriatric health care.

Urinary incontinence is often a result of an underlying medical condition but is under-reported to medical practitioners.

Enuresis is often used to refer to urinary incontinence primarily in children, such as nocturnal enuresis (bed wetting).

In anatomy, a natural stoma is any opening in the body, such as the mouth.

Any hollow organ can be manipulated into an artificial stoma as necessary.

This includes the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, ileum, colon, pleural cavity, ureters, urinary bladder, and kidney pelvis.

Urology (from Greek ouron "urine" and "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the male and female urinary tract system and the male reproductive organs.

The organs under the domain of urology include the kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, and the male reproductive organs (testes, epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate, and penis).

Medicine (British English; American English) is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

The word "medicine" is derived from Latin medicus, meaning "a physician".

Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

Contemporary medicine applies biomedical sciences, biomedical research, genetics, and medical technology to diagnose, treat, and prevent injury and disease, typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints and traction, medical devices, biologics, and ionizing radiation, amongst others.