clyster
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French clystere, or its source, Latin clyster, from Ancient Greek κλυστήρ (klustḗr).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklɪstə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklɪstɚ/
Noun
editclyster (plural clysters)
- (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: […] 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.
Interlingua
editNoun
editclyster (plural clysteres)