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.
Subjugation is a state of being under control or secondary. When a culture keeps women inferior to men and doesn't let them advance, this is an example of subjugation. subjugation. The act of subjugating. The state of being subjugated; forced control by others.