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glyster

glyster is the alternative form 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

Forms of glyster

pluralglysters

Questions about glyster

What is glyster the alternative form of?
Glyster is the alternative form of clyster.

Words near glyster in the dictionary

  1. glyptosternoids
  2. glyptotheca
  3. glyptothecas
  4. glyptotheque
  5. Glys
  6. glyster
  7. glysters
  8. glytamic
  9. Glâne
  10. Glässer's disease
  11. Glénard

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