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clyster

[ klis-ter ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.
  1. an enema.


clyster

/ ˈklɪstə /

noun

  1. med a former name for an enema
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clyster1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek klystēr, equivalent to *klyd- (base of klýzein to rinse out; cataclysm ) + -tēr agent noun suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of clyster1

C14: from Greek klustēr, from kluzein to rinse
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Example Sentences

Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.

Our modern medical writers ascribe great virtues to tobacco-water, injected into the womb by means of a clyster.

If she goes not well to stool, give a clyster made only of the decoction of mallows and a little brown sugar.

I must purge and clyster after this; and my next letter will not be in the old order of journal, till I have done with physic.

In the excavations of the Roman Hospital at Baden there was found the tube of a clyster in bronze.

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