clyster

English

Etymology

From Middle French clystere, or its source, Latin clyster, from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈklɪstə/

Noun

clyster (plural clysters)

1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. I, New York 2001, p. 233-4:

     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.