suppositories
- plural of suppository.
Example Sentences
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According to Le Monde newspaper, the devices were nicknamed "suppositories" by prison inmates because of their ease of concealment.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
But then there’s the level where you have to start using suppositories because you can’t keep pills down.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2024
Humans have been controlling their reproduction for all of recorded history, from ancient Egyptian vaginal suppositories made of animal dung to spermicidal ointments made with cedar and olive oil employed by 4th Century Greeks.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2023
Despite the prohibition in the Hippocratic Oath, gynecological texts were replete with recipes for contraceptive and abortive suppositories.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 11, 2020
The bowels are to be moved daily by glycerin suppositories or injection of warm water.
From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm
