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Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

clyster (plural clysters)

  1. (now rare) A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , 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.

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Noun edit

clyster (plural clysteres)

  1. clyster, enema, suppository