enemas

Noun

enema (plural enemas or enemata)

1. An injection of fluid into the large intestine by way of the rectum, usually for medical purposes.
   • To the distensile enema of simple tepid water, no valid objection can be urged.1875, Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 12, page 133
2. The fluid so injected.
   • And there is even a little known author, but a very credible one, who says that in a certain castle the Knight of Phoebus was caught in a certain trapdoor that opened beneath his feet, and he fell and found himself in a deep pit under the earth, tied hand and foot, and there he was given an enema...Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, pages 106-107

   Synonyms:

   clyster

3. A device for administering such an injection.

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