Words / E / Medicine

encourage oral intake

phrase

A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

To actively promote a patient's eating and drinking to maintain nutrition and hydration.

Please encourage oral intake and record everything she manages on the food chart.

Topic: Nursing care in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

Get words like encourage oral intake on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.

Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
QR code that opens Lexfall on the App Store
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.

More medicine words: Nursing care