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clysters

clysters is the plural of clyster.

Meaning of clyster

Noun

clyster (plural clysters)

  1. (archaic) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
    • 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., vol.I, New York 2001, p.233-4

Questions about clysters

What is clysters the plural of?
Clysters is the plural of clyster.

Words near clysters in the dictionary

  1. clyssi
  2. clyssus
  3. Clyst
  4. Clyst St Mary
  5. clyster
  6. clysters
  7. Clytaemnestra
  8. clyte
  9. clyted
  10. Clytemnestra
  11. clytes

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