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Clyster

//ˈklɪstə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository. archaic

    "Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered."

  2. 2
    an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French clystere, or its Latin source, in turn from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ (klustḗr).

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