Gastrostomy is a procedure in which the surgeon makes an opening into the stomach and inserts a feeding tube for feeding or for drainage. (Illustration by Electronic Illustrators Group.) Normally, the stomach and abdomen heal in five to seven days.
Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay Invisible Bullets. It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis. Literary critic Louis A. Montrose writes that the terms are often used to refer to the capacity of the dominant order to generate subversion so as to use it to its own ends.
sublimation. 1  Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use. 2  Chemistry. the act, fact, or process of subliming (def 9). 3  a purification or refinement; ennoblement.