clyster
nounUK /ˈklɪstə/ · US /ˈklɪstɚ/
Etymology From Middle French clystere, or its Latin source, in turn from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ (klustḗr).
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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